The Fruit Harvest

[poliphilo]

2013 was a great year for apples. This year one of our trees hasn't fruited at all and the others are very sparsely laden.

I've been picking apples so I can juice them in my fathers wine-press.



Lot of work for very little return.

Ailz says she'll buy me a juicer but that's missing the point. A juicer is kitchenalia whereas the winepress is a toy.

Maybe I'll press some grapes. We do have a few vines. My mother used to make wine. We found some bottles in the garage- twenty years old- and It tasted like- well, not like anything you'd pay money for.

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[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I'd love to get the apples in our back yard harvested and pressed, but I've no idea where, given this really isn't much of a cider region. As is, they simply provide bird treats and fertiliser. *sigh* I understand one tree is Bramley (well, some kind of cooking apple, and that's about the only "cooking" variety that seems to've survived into this day), the other some kind of eating apple - I'd love to try making cider out of a blend of the two, even if Bramley's hardly a traditional cider apple.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

One of our trees is a Bramley.

My mother tried her hand at wine (with mixed results) and beer (which came out wonderfully) but never attempted cider.