Happy New Year to all EESG followers. I'm sorry things have been a little quiet on the blog front, but Christmas has been so busy! I hope to be back on full form with my posts for 2013!
Yesterday we pressed the last of this years apples that have been stored since October.
Some have been bottled and pasteurised for apple juice, some has been put into demi johns to make cider. Whilst the pulp has been re-hydrated with hot water and will be turned into a light apple wine.
We used Spartan, Darcy Spice, Bramley, Russet and Honeycrisp apples.
Georgina and Donna preparing apples for crushing
Danni was in charge of crushing the apples ready for pressing
Tilly was also helping by clearing up any apples that weren't good enough for pressing
Maurice was pressing the crushed apples with help from Matt
Toni was sterilising bottles, filling them and pasturising them for storing.
We has a wonderful day, its such fun and we worked off some of the Christmas Turkey!