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Showing posts with label cider. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cider. Show all posts

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Black Butter event at the National Trust headquarters The Elms St Mary.




Every year the autumn is heralded by scores of people driving through St Mary's leafy lanes to deposit the fruit of their labours at the open door of the Elms.


It's an old tradition that a community of volunteers pare and peel hundreds of apples which are gently tipped into a boiling cauldron to create the local delicacy of Black Butter. 
Gallons of cider are boiled down and added to it are quantities of cinnamon, liquorice, brown sugar and treacle. Slowly simmered over an open fire long into the night it eventually reaches a jammy consistency and becomes the famous Black Butter. 
A true Jersey delicacy.














Asked by the BBC reporter "what does it taste like?" Charles Alluto replied, "it tastes like Christmas!"
















Sunday, October 9, 2016

Cider Festival at Hamptonne - Fais'se d'Cidre

One of the biggest events on the Heritage calendar and by the sheer volume of people attending yesterday one of the most popular.

Hamptonne hosted another Cider festival and people could see, first hand, the sheer effort that goes into making the amber nectar. 

Beyond the crushing and the pressing where lots of simple delights for the family but by far it was just being among happy people soaking up the atmosphere with children safely roaming around having fun the made the day.