[Sca-cooks] Freezing cider

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 19 Nov 2002, at 23:06, CorwynWdwd at aol.com wrote:

> Often it does.. sometimes it just pops the top of the container. If it's
> sweet cider, I suggest using two jugs to avoid this.

That's useful to know.

> This seems to be the
> best course. If it's natural cider, with the solids in it, they're going to
> separate, but this is seldom a big problem. If it's hard cider, and you're
> freeze distilling, and you live in the U.S.... officially I'd say don't do
> it, the Feds frown on it ::innocent look:: but if you WERE (hypothetically)
> to do it I'd say use a bowl so you can chip out the liquid core.... See what
> you started? <G>

I would never *dream* of doing such a thing!

No, my purpose is innocent -- I need to make 5 quarts of cider
sauce, which requires 10 quarts of sweet cider, and I'd like to buy it
while the holiday sales are on.

> Hope this helps...

Muchly.  Thanks.

> Corwyn (Who didn't get any hard cider this year (pout)


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