apple trees there are settlers (and not Indians). Apples were critical for making, among other things, hard cider - the beverage of choice for men, women and children. I suspect that as the taste for cider wore off, apple pies were a good replacement use for some of the apples. Apples...
The hard cider industry is celebrated for its tenfold growth over the last decade, according to Executive Director of American Cider Association, Michelle McGrath, but continued scaling of this market is uncertain as climate change and its cascading effects make apple production increasingly chal...
Appleseed, his biography of John Chapman, the pioneering nurseryman and, later, American legend. But agrarian cider's grip ebbed in the mid-19th century thanks to newly popular lagers brewed by German immigrants, and was further weakened when Prohibition forced cider to take a not-so-hard ...
The apples sown by Johnny Appleseed were largely sour and inedible, and were usually used to make hard cider rather than be baked in pies or eaten raw. You’ll notice they left that information out of the children’s version of the Johnny Appleseed legend! While many European bees escaped...
“Johnny Appleseed”. While today’s children’s books and fables depict Chapman as an apple-munching, carefree pioneer, every reliable historical source clarifies that he mainly cultivated crabapples for use in hard cider.“Really, what Johnny Appleseed was doing was bringing the gift of ...
Yet, as William Kerrigan observes, "these unnoticed, diffused, decentralized orchards provided large quantities of fruit each fall for the cider mills" (p... M Kammen - 《New England Quarterly》 被引量: 0发表: 2013年 Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard: A Cultural History Johnny Apple...
12 ounces hard apple cider 2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch (diluted with 2 tablespoons of water) Ingredients: For topping Powdered sugar Instructions: Preheat oven to 350°F. Using an electric mixer fitted with whisk attachment, whip butter until fluffy. Continue to whip butte...
For nine generations the Laird Family of New Jersey has been producing applejack, or apple brandy, an alcoholic beverage that helped fortify a revolution.CBS News Eighteenth-century America went ape for applejack, in part because fresh water was so hard to come by. ...
EdVdP is light brown in color – a testament to its eight year aging – but is not as dark as what you might expect from some brandies (though certainly darker than the last apple brandy I wrote about here). The scent is strongly of cider and quite sweet. There might be a touch of...
The industry here is focused on making fruit wines (i.e. fruits other than grapes). The climate – and the natural leaning towards fruit-based agriculture – has led local winemakers to capitalize on apple wines, cranberry, raspberry and particularly blueberry wines. ...