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Cider Apples - Rare and Heritage Fruit Cultivars #2 (Paperback)
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Cider Apples - Rare and Heritage Fruit Cultivars #2 (Paperback)
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List price R488
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Discovery Miles 4 130
You Save R75 (15%)
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CIDER APPLES (Rare and Heritage Fruit Cultivars #2)
Cider is a traditional alcoholic beverage made by the fermentation
of juice from specific apples. It can be brewed at home.
This pleasant - and reputedly health-giving - drink has a long
history. It is reported that when the Romans arrived in England in
55 BC, they found the local Kentish villagers drinking a delicious
cider-like beverage made from apples. It is unknown how long the
English locals had been making this apple drink prior to the
arrival of the Romans.
Cider apples are cultivars selected for characteristics that make
high quality cider. Early settlers sailed to new lands bringing
these special fruits, thus distributing them across the globe. Some
of these unique, historic cultivars have survived through the years
and been rediscovered by enthusiastic brewers. We list some of them
here, along with what is known of their history, description,
flavour characteristics and a few sources for trees.
This book is one of a series written for 'backyard farmers' of the
21st century. The series focuses on rare and heritage fruit in
Australia, although it includes much information of interest to
fruit enthusiasts around the world.
'Heritage' or 'heirloom' fruits such as old-fashioned varieties of
apple, quince, fig, plum, peach and pear are increasingly popular
due to their diverse flavours, excellent nutritional qualities and
other desirable characteristics. They are part of our
horticultural, vintage and culinary inheritance. To pick a
tree-ripened heritage fruit from your own back yard and bite into
it is to experience the taste of fresh food as our forefathers knew
it.
During the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries fruit diversity was
huge, but in modern supermarkets only a limited range of commercial
fruit varieties is now available to consumers.
Heritage, heirloom and rare fruit enthusiasts across the world are
currently reviving our horticultural legacy by renovating old
orchards and identifying 'lost', unusual and historic fruit
varieties. The goal is to make a much wider range of fruit trees
available again to the home gardener.
This series of handbooks aims to help.
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