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Homemade Apple Cider

A warm and delicious homemade drink to cozy up to when the weather outside is frightful!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 3 hours
Crock pot time 6 hours
Servings: 6 servings
Course: Drinks
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 8-10 medium apples chopped into 4 pieces, core discarded
  • 1 navel orange (optional) cut into 4-6 sections
  • 5 whole cinnamon sticks
  • ½ cup brown sugar, or honey
  • 1 teaspoon all spice (optional)
  • 8 cups water

Equipment

  • Slow cooker (optional)
  • Cheesecloth or a very fine mesh strainer

Method
 

Stovetop method
  1. Combine chopped apples and a navel orange with brown sugar, cinnamon sticks and water. Bring the mixture to a boil, then lower to a simmer.
  2. After 1 ½ hours, I like to remove the orange to it doesn't give off any bitter notes. Next, mash the very soft apples with a potato masher and cook for an additional 1 ½ hours.
  3. Cool and strain with cheesecloth.
Slow Cooker method
  1. Combine all the ingredients in the slow cooker.
  2. Cook for 3 hours on low.
  3. Remove the orange, mash the apples, and cook for another 3 hours.
  4. Cool and strain with cheesecloth