Apple Cider

1. Take a large stockpot and put quartered apples into it.
2. Pour in enough water to cover the apples by at least 2 inches.
3. Add to the apples -sugar, cinnamon, and allspice.
4. Bring the ingredients to a boil.
5. Boil without covering the pot for an hour.
6. After an hour, cover the pot, lessen heat, and let simmer for about 2 hours.
7. Let apple mixture pass through a fine netfilter.
8. Remove solid pieces and discard.
9. Trench cider again through a cheesecloth lined filter.
10. Refrigerate until cold and serve!

Trivia

• The well-known folk hero of Switzerland, on November 18th, 1307, shot an apple from his son’s head. November 18th is now celebrated as National Apple Cider Day.
• Cider was presented as a cure for gout and other illnesses amid 19th Century.
• Cider is often used to refer to apple juice that has no preservative, and apple juice is used for the juice of apple that has been treated.
• Celts were spotted sipping a drink made from crab apples in 55BCE when the Romans stormed through England. They then adapted the idea and took it back to Rome.
• A gallon of apple cider is made with 36 pieces of apples. 

• Because of it being cleaner than water, children were baptized in cider in the 14^th.
• Four pints of cider a day were paid to farm workers in earlier times as wages.
• It is said that 365 different varieties of cider producing apples were grown in the olden times.
• While cider is loved by everyone despite the gender, women tend to drink half the volume men do.