Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1872 — How to Make Cider. [ARTICLE]

How to Make Cider.

Cider ds only perfect when pure and undoctored—in this respect related to wine. It is preserving the quality of the apple (or grape) in the liquid form, the air having an effect upon it to change it from its raw to a refined or improved condition. The air is the chemist. It "will thus be seen that the quality of the fruit gives character to the liquid, and there must be a selection therefor as desired. All sour fruit, and very sour, will not do. All sweet is also not desirable as a general drink. A little tartness is agreeable. Fruit,,, sour and sweet, should therefore be mixed, and proportioned so as to suit taste. This is easily done. But to make the cider in, the best way is not generally done, though there is little difficulty in doing it. For winter cider, make late in the ’fill. This is to ggt the advantage of the frost, which will keep it from rapidly fermenting. The first few weeks will give it a touch of the ferment, and the cold weather increasing will retard it, and winter finally suspend it. .This is the principle, and it is obtained by making cider late in the fall, when the weather is cold on the whole, without any great and leng-een-tinued depressions of temperature. We need not say here that worthy, dirty or rotten apples will not make good cider. Care must be taken to get good, clean fruit.' And If the ground apples are left a few hours before pressing, the color will be darker, and it is thought the quality of the cider will be better. This, however, is not material. a Now you have a cider that is fresh and yet slightly smart, making a somewhat sprightly and highly \agreeable as well as healthful drink. This will remain so during the winter till well into the spring. It may then be bottled tight and used during the summer.— Exchange. —United States Detective Tom. Lonergan is looking after the “shovers”'of those “queer” fSO counterfeits. Some facetious individual perpetrated a practical jeke on the Union National Bank a few days since, by passing one of these notes at that institution, and the joke was not discovered until the bank Sent it over to the United States Depository.—Chicayo Tvw, .. ’ ■