ISSUE 50, APPLES, Part 5: Boiled Cider & Cider Jelly
Boiled cider and cider jelly
Boiled cider is a reduction of sweet cider, the unfermented juice of the harvest apple crush. Produced at home at farmsteads with apple orchards, and by regional commercial food producers in the mid-1800s, boiled cider became pantry staple. It was the secret to superior apple sauce, the heart of cider pie, the ideal glaze f…