[Sca-cooks] Cider

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Moving on to the encyclopedias, Britannica and one other said that
> cider being a non-alcoholic beverage is a North American usage, as
> contrasted with European usage where it's alcoholic. The US
> encyclopedia I checked had no entry for cider at all.

Anybody have access to Johnson's Dictionary? It would be interesting to
hear what dictionary writers before the Methodist and Temperance movements
thought.

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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