So, I had a remarkable few thoughts while in the shower this morning. Remarkable in that I’m remarking on them in this blog post. See if you can follow the train of thought and please leave me a comment instructing me on where I have it right, or wrong.
If today is Halloween, was yesterday Halloween Eve?
When I was in elementary school, I’m pretty sure we spelled it “Hallowe’en”.
What is the “e’en” a contraction for? I think eve, but that hardly makes sense.
So, is the day before Hallowe’en “Hallow’s Eve Eve”?
When Martin Luther nailed the 95 Thesis on the Wittenberg Door, was he the first Trick-or-Treat-er?
Why do I have to wait another week and a half for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow(e’en)’s Part 2?
Thank you for your indulgence. Or in Martin Luther’s case, for getting rid of them. Except he didn’t, but eventually, because of what he was doing, I don’t have them. Indulgences that is.
This year, dad’s apple tree started really producing apples. It’s a Norland Apple tree (mom thinks), probably ten or fifteen years old. They were going to make jelly out of the apples. I asked him to save me some, because a friend of mine has just acquired a press. He thought that was a good idea, so we decided to use all his apples for cider.
He picked them in late September and brought them over to my place one Sunday afternoon to press them. My friend Marlene, who let me borrow the press, had hammered her apples prior to pressing them, with so-so results. So, we tried quartering the apples before loading the press. It was hard work and didn’t work well. So, we brought out the food processor and ran them food the “coleslaw” blade. That mash pressed great!
In the end we got over fourteen litres from about three bushels of apples. We fermented it with some Lavalin 1116 fruit wine yeast, racked it a couple weeks later and bottled it. For half the cider, we primed it to add some carbonation in the bottle, making a sparkling cider. The carbonation worked great to offset the tartness of the cider. It was a lot of fun, a nice way to produce our own local cider and a good time with the family.
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