Cider-Makers

Cider-Makers

Photograph by Gertrude Jekyll

Frm Old West Surrey (1904).

"Cider is still made with the old wooden press. The apples are first crushed by a roller in the cider-mill. Two men work it together by a handle on each side, while one of them presses the . . . apples down towards the roller. The crushed pulp falls into a tub, and is then put into coarse fibre bags. Those are then packed one over the other in the press with boards between. The picture shows how the heavy presser is screwed-down on to the bags of pulp till they are quite flattened, and all the juice that can be squeezed out of them has come away. [continued below]"



Scanned image and text by George P. Landow].

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