Title: The American Cider Book
Author: Vrest Orton
Year: 1973
Format: Paperback
Page Count: 136
Price used: £0.01 (Amazon)*
*accurate at the time of posting
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.
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