Cider Making - A Great French Tradition!
posted on 27 April 2011 | posted in
Home and Garden
Cider making is a wonderful way of keeping an old and valuable tradition alive and also a great way of providing yourself with free drink all year! I have an orchard in northern France with a good mix of cider apple varieties.
Ours is an ancient orchard, with the trees well over 80 years old, and planted by the grandparents of the previous owner. These old trees only really produce a good crop every second year now.... but when they crop we get an absolute bumper quantity of apples.
We collect our apples usually in November and then put them through an apple crusher, before producing the cider with an old cider press.
These traditional cider presses come in various shapes and sizes, and even though many are extremely old, they work as well today as when they were first built. This is a great tradition in northern France, particularly in the Normandy and Brittany regions.
Of course, further south in France, wine making is the celebrated heritage, but in the north of France cider is still regularly produced and happily served in farmhouse kitchens throughout the region.
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