SC - OOP - Wedding favor question

[Christine A Seelye-King]

There is a brand of apple juice that is sold in clear glass jugs that are
shaped like an apple.  The name of the brand escapes me just now, and it
is not the most inexpensive of apple juice products, but it would make a
lovely visual effect. 
Christianna

On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:35:22 -0400 Tara Sersen <tsersen at nni.com> writes:
> Greetings.
> 
> I need some OOP but food-related advice.  
> 
> My fiance and I are kicking around ideas for unique wedding favors.  
> Our
> wedding will be in October, in the Adirondacks.  It will be outside, 
> and
> will be autumnal in theme.  We'll be decorating with pumpkins and 
> apples
> and serving cider and beer.  Instead of a wedding cake, we're having 
> a
> stack of wedding cupcakes decorated with mellocreme pumpkins and 
> candy
> corn.
> 
> One idea that I had was a "warm up kit" - a bottle of cider and some
> mulling spices to take home and warm up, to beat the October chill.  
> I'm
> picturing a 12 or 16 ounce bottle of cider with a tea-bag of spices 
> tied
> to the neck or handle.  But, we need to find the 12 or 16 ounce 
> bottles
> of cider.  My experience has been that the cider sold in glass 
> bottles
> is the carbonated-apple-juice variety, not the good, thick rich 
> stuff
> that is heavenly when warmed up.  I've never seen the good stuff in
> glass bottles.  I don't think a plastic pint-sized milk jug would 
> work,
> because we need it to keep without refrigeration - most of our 
> guests
> are staying in a hotel.
> 
> So, my question is, do any of you know of a brand of *good* cider of 
> the
> variety I described that comes in small glass bottles?  I'd 
> especially
> be excited if it's an organic brand, but I'm not going to get too 
> picky.
> 
> Alternatively, never having brewed, I don't know how difficult it 
> would
> be to bottle my own.  I guess in theory it's just like canning, 
> which
> I've done before.  But, I don't know how to secure lids on bottles, 
> and
> is there any difference in sterilizing them since they're not as 
> easy to
> immerse as a wide-mouthed jar?  Can anybody advise me on whether 
> this
> would be a useful way to spend my time?
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> -Magdalena vander Brugghe
> 
> ps. just in case yer interested, http://users.nni.com/tara-n-craig 
> is
> our wedding page
>
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