We Like Cider.
From the Library of Congress:
A bouquet of spring blossoms and flowers tied with a ribbon; shown are a Primula auricula cultivar, a sprig of apple blossoms, and daffodils.
Created /Published: Philada. : Published by J. Thackara & Son Engravers 35 Spruce St., [between 1814 and 1817]
We’ve been gone so long – like a cider Rip Van Winkle. We are back. We are in the Pacific Northwest. Cascadia based (Seattle adjacent) and we are looking to find out – What’s been going on. Cider is everywhere. Time to explore*. Hello Cider!
(*and do some site housekeeping to fix broken links and content)
Andy Brennan of Aaron Burr Cider wrote a book – Uncultivated Wild Apples, Real Cider, and the Complicated Art of Making a Living.
From Chelsea Green Publishing:
“The hero of this book is the wild apple. Uncultivated follows Brennan’s twenty-four-year history with naturalized trees and shows how they have guided him toward successes in agriculture, in the art of cider making, and in creating a small-farm business. The book contains useful information relevant to those particular fields, but is designed to connect the wild to a far greater audience, skillfully blending cultural criticism with a food activist’s agenda.”
Here are links to some additional information about Andy, Aaron Burr Cider, wild apples and real ciders:
About Aaron Burr CiderAaron Burr Cider’s Cider 101
Eric Asimov in The New York Times
A New Golden Age for Cider Production in New York
Rowan Jacobsen in Tasting Table
The Feral Cider Society: Looking for the Future of American Cider on the Side of the Road
“Thanksgiving was celebrated with the greatest profusion. For three days previous all was bustle and preparation: the stalled ox was killed, – turkeys, hens, and geese innumerable shared the fate of Charles the first, – a load of the best walnut wood was drawn for the thanksgiving fires, a barrel of the best cider was chosen, the best pumpkins were selected for pies, (to supply the place of minced,)* and strong water was provided in moderation to assist the inspiration of the joyful occasion.”
* “It has been said that minced pies were proscribed from the bill of fare of the Puritans because they were customarily made by the Episcopalians on Christmas.”
Page: 191
From: History of the colony of New Haven: before and after the union with Connecticut. Containing a particular description of the towns which composed that government, viz., New Haven, Milford, Guilford, Branford, Stamford, & Southold, L. I., with a notice of the towns which have been set off from “the original six.”
Author: Edward Rodolphus Lambert Publisher: Hitchcock & Stafford, 1838 – Branford (Conn.)
via: google ebook
Image: Creator(s): Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925, artist. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, reproduction number LC-USZC4-1206 (color film copy transparency)
From the archives: November 2014.
A committee composed of members of the Herefordshire Fruit-Growers’ Association and of the Fruit and Chrysanthemum Society was appointed in 1899 to make a selection of vintage apples and pears best suited to Herefordshire and the districts adjoining.
The following is the list drawn up by the committee:
The Apples:
Old Foxwhelp Cherry Pearmain Cowarne Red Dymock Red Eggleton Styre Kingston Black or Black Taunton Skyrme’s Kernel Spreading Redstreak Carrion Apple Cherry Norman Cummy Norman Royal Wilding Handsome Norman Strawberry Norman White Bache or Norman Broad-leaved Norman and Argile Grise Bramtot De Boutville Frequin Audievre Medaille d’Or These last five being “French sorts” introduced from Normandy about 1880, and now established in the orchards of Herefordshire.Adapted from an online version of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica – Article: CIDER, or CYDER (from the Fr. cidre, derived from the Lat. sicera or cisera, Gr. mucepa, Heb. shade, strong drink)
Read more here: CIDER, or CYDER …
Visit the Cider Week Hudson Valley website for more detals: ciderweekhv.com
