Apple Cider

Step 3 Rinse, Cut, and Juice

This step went very quickly because I was able to use a juicer. I rinsed off the skins, quartered the apples, and fed them into the juicer. The citrus was quartered, peeled, and them fed into the juicer.

If you don't have a juicer, this step will be a bit more time consuming, but still tons of fun. Just wash the apples and then core them (you don't want apple seeds and their cyanide in your cider!) Now, you can use a food processor to puree them smooth, like apple sauce. Then, you pour the pureed apples into a piece of cheesecloth over your container, wrap it up, and carefully squeeze the juice into the container below. The oranges and lemons can be juiced by hand with a citrus reamer or another hand juicer.

Comments

[ledskof]

I've eaten thousands of apple seeds.  It would take a ridiculous amount of apples seeds all in one sitting to even register as toxic.  It's really not worth even bringing up that apple seeds contain cyanide.

[nagutron]

Yeah, good point. I read up on it and I think you're right: http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp