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Spiced Apple Juice
by Chris Mosler | Oct 21, 2015 | Afternoon Tea , Autumn Cooking , Cooking, Drinks and
Smoothies, Halloween Cooking | 0 comments
I love the year’s markers and events and the autumn is packed with them!
Celebrations of a summer well spent and a farewell to long days with the lighting of
焘�res and candles, and then on into the winter as we drift from Harvest Festival into
Halloween, Bon焘�re Night and then tumble towards the warmth of Christmas.
But today is Apple Day – established in 1990 by Common Ground as a celebration of
the yearly crop. We celebrate it every year with some apple crafts and apple cakes ,
we throw apples into stews and we try to get to one of the local apple day
celebrations (we live in Somerset – apple country!). Best of all, my daughter whips up
a batch of her hot, spiced apple juice and we gather near the 焘�re with our hands
wrapped around steaming mugs of spicy deliciousness!
She usually serves it in heat proof glasses or our lovely pottery goblets but last year
she had a stroke of genius and o瀜�ered up a hollowed out apple per person – aren’t
they beautiful?! I think this may well be the beginning of a new family tradition!
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Ingredients
2k English Apples (or 1 litre of juice)
1 cinnamon stick
2 star anise (plus extra to decorate)
4 cloves
thin strips of orange zest
honey to taste
Instructions
1. Juice your apples using a juicer or juice attachment for a food mixer (or
open your bought juice)
2. Pour the apple juice into a saucepan
3. Add the spices and orange zest
4. Simmer for 10 ­ 15 minutes to allow the spices to impart their flavour
5. Taste and add a little honey if required
6. Serve in heat proof glasses or hollowed out apples
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As luck would have it we have been sent a box of English apples with tasting notes,
just in time for our apple day celebrations! I am a huge fan of Egremont Russet’s with
their distinctive skin and �avour so I was delighted to 焘�nd a couple of those in there
along with some good old reliable Cox’s and Gala but Zari and Rubens were new to
me and very nice they are too!
At an apple day event a few years ago we had the two old trees in our garden
identi焘�ed by the apple experts and were told that they are Crispin and Charles Ross
respectively – neither store very well so we eat them as they ripen, juice the ones
which leap o瀜� the tree with wild abandon and I cook the rest up for the freezer to
keep us going through the winter.
English apples are de焘�nitely the tastiest and I would urge you to reach for the apples
wearing their Union Jack stickers with pride when you are shopping this autumn – or
to visit your local orchard and pick your own! Once you have – make Spiced Apple
Juice and ward o瀜� the autumn chill!
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