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From: nm34@sdcc12.UUCP (nm34)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: apple cider
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Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 11:11:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 11:11:38 1985
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   It is very easy to make hard apple cider (alcoholic).  

     1) Buy real apple cider.  THis is from a fruit stand in the country.
   I recomend Jenkins-Leukins on Rt. 299 just outside of New Paltz, New York 
(my home town).  

     2) Unscrew the cap and let it sit on top of the bottle.  

        i) Option 1 - Dont add any yeast.  It the cider is natural, it
should contain its own yeast.  But I have had the stuff go rotten
instead of good.  Let it sit in your cool basement or cool room for
about 1 to 2 weeks, until it is bubbly and tastes like beer. 

       ii) Option 2 - Add baking yeast.  An 1/8 of a teaspoon is all that
is needed.  In a pinch this will work fine.  The hard cider wont taste quite 
as good, but after the third glass, you wont care. 

      iii) Option 3 - Add brewer's yeast.  Also only an 1/8 of a teaspoon. 
This is the prefered agent.  Make sure it is live yeast.  Drug stores sell a
product that contain, I think, dead yeast.  So watch out. 

     3) The amount of time it takes is variable depending on yeast,
temperature and apple cider, so you have to experiment.  


     For a final trick, after the cider is distinctly hard (maximum
alcohol content) put it outside in below freezing weather (in a plastic
container)  or in the freezer.  As it freezes from the outside, the
alcohol concentrates on the middle of the bottle.  WHen it is frozen,
there will be a core of very strong apple flavored liquid.  Strain the
ice and enjoy.  This is called (in New Paltz) apple jack. 


P.s.  I now live in San Diego and can only reminisce about these things.


                               Andy


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