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[Lisa Almarode <lisaalmarode@yahoo.com>]

Birds are still getting all the apples from my young trees, but 
someone gave me a bushel or so of apples, macs and something else.
Rather unjuicy apples; my Dad (who grew up in Massachusetts working 
on orchards with proper Macintoshes ), was disappointed, the growers 
probably didn't irrigate heavily (we have a very dry climate) and I 
wonder how well they'd press.  They dry easily :-) but as an aside a 
ripe bosc pear dries much better.  Heavenly.

Anyway, my (dumb) question: as I fantasize about the Lehmans's cider 
press and read how you just drop the apples in whole, I wonder about 
bug damage - a good percent of these apples have black stuff 
presumably from bugs, just at the cores, easy to cut out for drying... 
I can only imagine you need to cut this out for cider too?  

I also hear the local rentals place has a cider press you can rent for 
$16/weekend.  

> Regarding Lehman's press-it looks like the Happy Valley logo on the
> side of the grinder.  I have friends with a Happy Valley press and


Lisa in Ashland Oregon
USDA Z7 - Sunset Z7 - 1800' - 19" annual rainfall

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