Early Days of Cider Making by E.F. Bulmer

Title: Early Days of Cider Making
Author: E.F. Bulmer
Year: 1937
Format: Booklet
Page Count: 30
Price new: available new from the Hereford Cider Museum
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Description: (TLDR)
The Story of the early days Bulmers Cider by one of the brothers who started it.

On the inside of the front cover it says:
"This booklet is a facsimile reproduction by the Museum of Cider of the original privately published in 1937 to mark the Golden Jubilee of H.P. Bulmer & Co.
The author Edward Fredrick Bulmer was the elder of the two brother who founded and built up the original partnership of H.P. Bulmer & Co"

Further information on E.F. Bulmer is included on that page.

The American Cider Book by Vrest Orton

Title: The American Cider Book

Author: Vrest Orton

Year: 1973

Format: Paperback

Page Count: 136

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Description: (TLDR)

The history of American cider, different cider making methods and recipes for cooking with cider and cider based drinks.

On the back of the book it says:

This book does more than tell you how to make cider it gives a fascinating capsule history of the world's second-oldest beverage. Replete with diverting facts, it follows cider through American history, legend and folklore. It relates the established methods of cider making, old and modern, amateur and commercial, and gives simple directions for making small batches of cider at home.

The last section provides 34 historic recipes for beverages to be made with cider: punches, nogs and nightcaps. Mr. Orton also describes the long-forgotten uses for cider in cooking and baking, and offers the reader scores of recipes, some of them old family favourites , for such dishes as dried apple pie with cider, wild game basted with cider, and apple bread.

Vrest Orton has written seventeen books and contributed to many national magazines, as well as being founder of Vermont Life Magazine. Today with his wife, Ellen, and his son Lyman, he operates The Vermont Country Stores, modeled after his father's and grandfather's original emporium. Mr. Orton also runs a national mail order enterprise and is actively involved in both state and federal government.

100 Ways with Cider

Title: 100 Ways with Cider

Author: Letts Guides

Year: 1978

Format: Paperback

Page Count: 63

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Description: (TLDR)

A compilation of recipes from the Taunton cider kitchen. Approx. 30 of those ways are mulled cider or cider punches.

On the back of the book it says:

"The recipes in this book show how the simplest and most inexpensive foods available everywhere can be prepared in interesting, delicious and nutritious ways. Advice is given on the art of cooking with cider and the general preparation of the foods, and the recipes include suggestions for a variety of starters, snacks, main meals and drinks.

Cooking with cider is not a common practice in Britain, although as a drink it has been known and appreciated for centuries. In this book delicious recipes, many from the West Country, show how cider can enhance flavours and add unusual piquancy to both savoury and sweet dishes."

A Drink For it's Time by Michael B. Quinion

Title: A Drink For it's Time
Author: Michael B. Quinion
Year: 1979
Format: Booklet
Page Count: 24
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Description: (TLDR)
Farm cidermaking until the 1930's 

On the back of the book it says:
"This book grew out of part of the work done during 1978 to establish the Museum of Cider at Hereford. Five young people were employed under the Job Creation Programme to investigate the farm cider tradition, as it has been practised in the 20th Century, mainly through a series of about 750 personal interviews with present and former cider makers. The project also included two sessions of practical testing of the methods on traditional apparatus at which several hundred gallons of cider and perry were made. The area covered is the Herefordshire Region, including not only that county but all of the neighbouring ones particularly Worcester, Gloucestershire and the Welsh Border Counties. The author is Curator of the Museum." 

A Taste Of Cider by Shirley Harrison

Title: A Taste Of Cider

Author: Shirley Harrison

Year: 1982

Format: Hardback

Page Count: 95

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Description: (TLDR)

Recipes mixed with information on cider history

On the back of the book it says:

"The taste of cider is a liquid evocation of the English countryside of hedgerow walks, pub benches in the sun and the smell of stubble on an autumn day. The story of cider has been woven into the life and folklore of rural England for at least a thousand years: for centuries farmers have made it, housewives have cooked with it and doctors extolled its medical magic.

Yet it is really only since the last war that cider has become a high flyer in the kitchen. Today, cider is poured into the best British scones, Christmas puddings and eel pie, and may be found among the cooking wines on the shelves of our more exclusive restaurants and hotels.

In this blend of anecdote and recipe, Shirley Harrison combines old and new idea for cooking with cider with fascinating and often curious facts about this most traditional of English  Drinks. Over 100 recipes from such diverse sources as the Benedictine monks of Worth Abbey and the Queens cousin, Lady Elizabeth Anson, reflect the rich history of the drink which now ranks with Devonshire cream and Northumberland kippers as a culinary treat.

The Author Shirley Harrison is a freelance writer and journalist who lives in Sussex within a stones throw of the local cider producers. In helping them to set up an exhibition devoted to all aspects of the drink, she became aware of the tremendous versatility of cider, especially in the kitchen. As a mother of four Shirley finds that for family meals as well as on special occasions cider is nearly (nearly ???. tb) always a good as wine and certainly cheaper and believes that a recipe book should be seen as an entertaining invitation to explore new culinary possibilities.