Saturday, November 2, 2019

Cider making Hamptome

There was a time when every small farm woul, in October, make cider for the Breton farm workers next summer, it was made a week before the black butter nigh in October,and in the 19th centuary cider made in the traditional way was a bigger export from Jersey than the Jersy Royal potatoes are today, alas, another tradition gone, but at Hamptome the tradition is kept alive and is the only place where cider can be seem being made here today, this was taken in the Cider barn and shows the granite apple crusher with the horse

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