Use Up Excess Apples; Press Them For Juice

Make Sensational Juice

This year sees an abundance of swollen apples dotted on every apple tree, from crab to russet, cooking to cox.  I’ve seen branches hanging so  heavy that wearing a hard hat while picking was not the most ridiculous idea conceived by my picking friends.

But what to do with them? There are simply too many to eat, too many to store and countless windfalls lie scattered all over the grass. I don’t have a pig and there’s no chance of getting one in the near future. So what to do with this delicious fruit apart from rotting into the ground?

Well why not try finding an apple press. Our village is the lucky owner of good quality press and opens it’s pressing screws for a few days every year. For a small fee we had great fun pulping and squashing. And the juice is nothing less than sensational.

We’ve stored some away in plastic milk containers and hope to have another pressing later on this month. The juice is running out fast.

There are some great web resources for finding out more about this. Have a good look round.

Best wishes,  James