Monday December 5, 2011

 

 

Making Apple Cider

~ For Brunswick Church Celebration ~

Saturday, December 3

 

There were lots of apples – free apples that Diane and their children picked up at an orchard – for the church celebration on Sunday.

 

 

Jim – Brunswick Church of the Brethren (Maine) minister – setting up the machine that will chop the apples.

 

 

Diane (Hannah is hidden) preparing to wash and cut apples.

 

 

 

 

Greg – deacon at Brunswick Church – teaching Hannah and Lydia how to place apples in the chopper.

 

 

Diane, Rachel, Emily, Lydia and Hannah

 

 

Apples after being chopped.

 

 

 

 

Jim preparing the cider press.

 

 

 

 

I have never tasted better apple cider.

 

 

Greg and Jim

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim got a workout on Saturday

 

 

A tub full of chopped apples

 

 

Putting the chopped apples into the press.

 

 

Emily, Rachel and Lydia (Emily and Rachel are Greg and Jill’s daughters.)

 

 

 

 

After making fourteen gallons of cider, we went into the house where Greg’s wife, Jill, and I helped Diane prepare cauliflower and broccoli for vegie trays for Sunday afternoon.

 

 

Greg checking on the chicken he was cooking.

 

 

This had nothing to do with Sunday’s preparation. He was just cooking some chickens they had recently butchered.

 

 

After Jill, Diane and I finished cutting up some of the vegetables, Greg and Jill’s daughter Kathryn cleaned up the floor before lunch.

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It was a fun and interesting day. I had never seen cider being made.

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