{"id":34212,"date":"2025-09-05T20:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34212"},"modified":"2025-09-05T20:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:31:15","slug":"apple-juice-at-st-ethelwolds-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34212","title":{"rendered":"Making Apple Juice at St Ethelwold\u2019s House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090500.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThis week, the Abingdon Carbon Cutters have been pressing apple juice at St Ethelwold\u2019s House.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090501.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe process begins by washing the apples, cutting out any damaged parts, and chopping them. This is the most sociable part, with groups working together and chatting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090502.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nNext, the apples are put through a &#8216;scratter,&#8217; which crushes them into a pulp.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090503.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe pulp is then transferred to a press, wrapped in muslin and squeezed, with the juice running out into buckets. The leftover pulp is collected for composting.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025090504.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nFinally, the juice is strained as it is poured into bottles &#8211; which are donated by visitors, just like the apples.<\/p>\n<p>Bottles are \u00a32 each. Fresh, unpasteurised juice was available straight from the press, while pasteurised juice, which keeps longer, could be purchased later.<\/p>\n<p>While I was there two visitors brought their own fruit, and kept it separate throughout the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the Abingdon Carbon Cutters have been pressing apple juice at St Ethelwold\u2019s House. The process begins by washing the apples, cutting out any damaged parts, and chopping them. This is the most sociable part, with groups working together and chatting. Next, the apples are put through a &#8216;scratter,&#8217; which crushes them into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}