SC - How to use up that pesky mastodon

[Philip & Susan Troy]

> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 10:11:48 -0800
> From: "Crystal A. Isaac" <crystal at pdr-is.com>
> Subject: Re: SC - krupnik, calvados
> 
> Umm, sorry to nag, but can you point me towards a period source for
> Norman cider or cider making techniques? Did they add anything to the
> cider or just ferment fruit/juice?
> 
> thanks,
> Crystal of the Westermark

See Gervase Markham's "The English Housewife", c. ~1615 C.E.  I seem to
recall there is a fairly detailed section on making cider, cyser, small
cider and perry. In some cases pure juice is fermented, and in others
water is added. Sometimes other stuff. I don't imagine the technique is
too different from Norman methods, although the yeast strains (which
appear to be wild, airborne fellas) and apple varieties are presumably
different.

Adamantius
troy at asan.com


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