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Harvest your own bumper crop of English apples and make delicious apple juice, or even cider, as well as traditional tarts and crumbles , from your home grown fayre.
You can buy or hire an apple press depending on the size of your harvest, best to get a crusher too, removes alot of the physical hard work. The apples are first crushed, you can combine many different varieties for a really tasty juice, then wrapped in cheesecloth before putting in the apple press. As pressure applied the golden jucie pours into a waiting receptacle. it can then be bottled, pasteurized so that it keeps and stored in a dark place.
cooking apples make perfect crumbles, especially when combined with seasonal blackberries, and wonderful golden tattlers. Recipes available.