Cider Fan
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”Martin Luther
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My first attempt at baked apple chips was a success! My family and I agreed these chips were a keeper.
- 1 large Fuji apple
- ground cinnamon
- organic cane sugar
- Preheat oven to 300F.
- Wash apple.
- Using a mandoline, slice the apple .75 mm thin.
- Mix the ground cinnamon and organic cane sugar together and sprinkle the mixture onto the apple slices.
- Place the slices onto parchment paper and arrange them to be a single layer. Make sure they do not overlap!
- Bake one side for 15 minutes and flip to the other side for another 10 minutes.
- Remove the slices from the oven and allow them to cool for about 10 minutes. They will become extra crispy after they have cooled down.
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British to the core
While British summer fruit harvests are having a bumper year, apple growers are watching their crops closely in case the drought in parts of the UK worsens. The British eat their way through billions of apples each year, and it’s the nation’s love affair with the fruit that has made it so popular today, writes horticulturalist Chris Beardshaw.
Check out the short video insert of Chris Beardshaw visiting the original, now 200 year-old, Bramley tree.
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Yo! Cider fans!
Hello cider fans,
May as well introduce myself. My name is Kat. I love cider. I home brew from time to time but I also love to go out for a frosty pint.
I also created a Facebook Page for Cider a while back. Right now it has over 29,000 fans! I could only dream to be a facilitator in such a community but here all you guys are telling me you also love cider too! Right now Facebook says that “cider” is too general of a term for me to own and thus must change the page name in order to authenticate the page and resume publishing privileges.
Here is part of the email I received from Facebook after requesting the name change to “Cider Fan”, to match this new blog:
“My apologies but we will only be able to authenticate your Page if we change your Page’s name to “Cider by Kat ******* or www.ciderfan.tumblr.com.” The name change will be applied to the current Page and you will keep all the fans. The reason for this is because since this is a fan page created and administered by you, we would like to put your voice behind it by adding the appropriate byline. Please let me know if I have permission to change your Page name to reflect that and we look forward to assisting you further.”
Cider by any other name would still taste as good, right? True, but I feel that to keep my true voice (along with all of yours!) for the love of cider, the Facebook page should be named “Cider Fan”. If this is not reasonably possible, because I have better things to do than fight with the Facebook administrators forever over a Page name, I will change it to one of their suggested names in order to keep all of you lovely cider fans.
I will keep updating this blog more, amidst the Facebook issue and my own life. I hope you enjoy this blog as well as keep participating and sharing on the Facebook Page “Cider”.
Thank you all! Keep those home brew batches going and have a pint of cider for me!
Most sincerely,
_Kat a.k.a. Cider Fan
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What are you home brewing?
