NEED an Excellent 18th/19th Century Recipe for HARD Cider

[Loyalist Dave]

Actually, unless all you are going for is solvent/antiseptic/fuel, you shouldn't distill above 120 proof as beyond that most of the flavors are gone. For example, even if you "step" on Bacardi 151 and bring it down to 95 proof, it's not as good as Gosling made to 95 proof (imho). You'll still end up with the same amount of product..., you just will have eliminted one or two extra "runs" of the liquor..., and if your product has a very good flavor, perhaps even if you take some and let it set a couple of years in a charred, white oak keg, or a used wine barrel that was used to age wine... you may find you need less to barter with to get more. :grin:

LD

 

[tenngun]

Well into the late 19th century and the rise of health food people like Kelloge It was considered unhealthy to eat any uncooked food. Dirty hands could give you the two step, but so could a gut unused to raw fruit. We call it dumping syndrome when a person has a hard time getting back to eating after being without food in the gut from starvation or med problems. We killed a lot of Jews Hitler missed by feeding them after opening the camps. Some died of a blocked or ruptured gut, some died of diarrhea. Filling up on fresh food after little to eat or a meat rich low carb diet would send you to the hooters in a hurry.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Didn't they figure out after some casualities to give them broth, then gruel in small amounts several times a day, and work them up to some bread, until finally they could handle soups until they could deal with full solid foods?

I wonder, bringing this back to the BP era, if because famine and/or long periods without food were not as uncommon they knew this back then as a normal procedure..., which we had forgotten by the 2nd quarter of the 20th century?

LD

 

[tenngun]

In the camps pointed out above, if you care about suffering and have little medical knowledge you can be tempted to give a hungry person food.
We have no knowledge of how many people died of being over fed after 'starving time'.
Med myths remain very active. People pile on blankets on a person with a fever, our first lady runs around telling people without heart conditions to not eat salt, or tv offers get thin quick pills.
Fact is if you lived in the 18th century it would be hard to beat a good middle class diet for a healthy diet program.

 

[satx78247]

Btw, just today the NY Court of Appeals handed the "public nannies" a STUNNING DEFEAT on "large soft drinks". = "Bloomie", AKA: "Hizhonor", must be furious.

The older that I get, the LESS that I want "government" to make ANY decision about adult's "life choices".
(I was a "good soldier" in the War on Drugs for 2 decades & I've come to decision that if you want to POISON yourself with dope that that is each adult's decision to make, as long as you directly injure nobody else.)

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

Yeah I saw that. Robert Hienlin writting in the note book of Lazurus Long said that no matter what you call a government...Monarchy, Communisum Democracy ect boil down to just two types. Those that want to control others lifes and those who dont want to be controlled. The first want the best for all the most people the later make better neighbors. 'Wont you be my neighbor?'as I am firmly in the second group.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

(I was a "good soldier" in the War on Drugs for 2 decades & I've come to decision that if you want to POISON yourself with dope that that is each adult's decision to make, as long as you directly injure nobody else.)

I'm still in that fight...

Way back when, a lot of what is regulated was available...opium was the major drug, and the first real pain killer. Marijuana, cocoa leaves, freshly grated nutmeg (yes the spice), plus a myriad of other natural drugs were out there.

Now I agree a person should be able to do what they want, BUT... the problem with the Libertarian viewpoint is that WE end up PAYING for that person's treatment when they OD..., so as long as Hospitals have to treat persons who "poison" themselves and then pass on the costs to me, I am being harmed, ....so I shall object to its use.

LD

 

[satx78247]

You're presuming that I favor the public paying.

yours, satx