{"id":3041,"date":"2018-10-07T10:24:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T11:52:01","slug":"ciderish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/ciderish\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciderish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent\u00a0message to the team requested this old recipe, it must have got lost during one of the many transfers over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Found again from <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20041212082033\/http:\/\/selfsufficientish.com:80\/ciderish.htm\">Archive.org 2004 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Ciderish<\/h1>\n<p>I call this Ciderish as it is not quite real cider and not quite apple wine, more somewhere in between. (also it fits in with our ish take on life)<\/p>\n<h4>Ingredients<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>3.6 kilos (8lb) Apples, any apples will do.(try and find some unused apple trees)<\/li>\n<li>9 ltrs (2 gallons) water<\/li>\n<li>28grams (1oz) root ginger<\/li>\n<li>Juice of four lemons<\/li>\n<li>some empty resealable bottles<\/li>\n<li>3.6 Kilos (8lbs) Sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Step 1<\/h3>\n<p>Cut up the unpeeled apples roughly with a non-metallic knife.\u00a0 Cover with two gallons of boiling water preferably in a brewers bucket. Incidentally, you must not use any metal in this recipe.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 2<\/h3>\n<p>Leave the mixture for two weeks, returning to crush the apples well, now and again. By now and again I guess you could get away with doing it 4 times as long as the mixture is well liquified. Be careful that mould does not form at this stage.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 3<\/h3>\n<p>Stick the kettle on. Strain the liquid and add the bruised root ginger, lemon juice and sugar. Give it a good stir to ensure that the sugar has dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>Add a quarter of a pint of boiling water and leave the whole thing to stand again for just over a fortnight removing the scum off the top as it rises.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 4<\/h3>\n<p>You will need two people for this next bit. Strain into resealable bottles and screw on the tops lightly for 2 days, just to the point where they would need another half turn to fully close them.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 5<\/h3>\n<p>Ok so you have waited almost five weeks, now tighten the stoppers and keep in a cool, dark and most importantly, dry place for two months.<\/p>\n<p>If you are an American reading this I am talking of the British cider, which of course contains alcohol.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Many sites tell you to drink responsibly, I never do and really enjoy a good irresponsible drink from time to time. Just make sure you don&#8217;t give yourself alcohol poisoning or decide that 3am is a good time to phone up that ex who you are certain wants to speak to you. Otherwise, enjoy a good British Irresponsible drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A recent\u00a0message to the team requested this old recipe, it must have got lost during one of the many transfers over the years. Found again from Archive.org 2004 &nbsp; Ciderish I call this Ciderish as <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/ciderish\/\" title=\"Ciderish\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drink"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.selfsufficientish.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}