Making homemade cider! | Blogs
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We just made some homemade cider and it was delicious! I do not have a proper cider press but I did have a home made cheese press that I decided to try to use as a cider press. It worked quite well! First I cut up the apples into quarters. Then I put them into a food processor with the metal blade and chopped them quite fine. It almost looked like applesauce but more coarse. Then I lined a cheese mold with cheese cloth. A cheese mold is basically a cylinder of food grade plastic with no bottom and holes on the sides. With the cheese cloth inside the mold I added my apple pulp. Then I folded the cheese cloth over the pulp and put the follower in. Then I put the top of my press in place and put rocks on top of that for weight! Underneath the cheese mold is a plain old disposable 8x8 foil cake pan that has a hole poked in one corner. That way all the cider flows to that little hole and down into a bowl. And there you have it! We pressed a quart of cider from roughly 5 pounds of apples. We had the cider with our dinner that evening and it was heavenly! They kids really seemed to enjoy the process as you can see!