After I made preserves, I worked on making a cider. Figured it would be a good idea to make a few things with the apples. I still have another jar of apple sauce, and a jar of apple preserves. So it was perfect to use the rest to make some cider. Honestly I do not know if I ever had cider before. So this could be a whole new experience for me.
I really like my apple sauce, but its possible I will start making more of this if I like it.
We start off straining out the juice from apples that have gone through a food processor. I wrap the apple mash in cheese cloth and then get the juices out while keeping the mash in the cloth. At this point I could have stopped and just drank the juice, but we are going to do more with it.
The mash left over I have no idea what to do with it. Could be cool use it in some kind of pastry. But this time it just ended up being waste.
I pour the juice in a sauce pan and start heating it. We add cinaamon and clove to it for flavor.
Eventually the color changes to more of a cream. Most of the water is cooked off.
Oh man my cooktop is so dirty, please dont judge me :-P
We finish the cider by pouring it into a mason jar for consumption. About half or three quarters of the water has been cooked off.
So how does it taste? Really good! I am amazed no sugar was added, yet it was so sweet. I think I am going to try some of the apple juice next time to compare, but it was really cool trying out making apple cider. Thanks to those who recommended it.
