DH has been picking apples again. Yet more from our amazing dual purpose tree, and now loads from our russet. The russets are only just getting ripe, but they are starting to fall. Our council#s green waste now bans fruit from their service, so we are trying to use more.
There were so many this time, something like 6 crates of them. I helped by washing and cutting them all, making sure there weren't any wormies or other invaders in the fruit that was passed for scratting.
The mill (scratter) and the press have certainly earned their keep this year. It was so much easier using them than trying to do it on a smaller scale.
We have a humungous fermenter sitting on the worktop, full of juice and bubbling away. It makes the house smell a bit, so we try and have the outside doors open as much as possible.
This batch will be some form of cider.
I'm going to try and put (some of ) the windfalls in the food waste.
