I always like to try and use whatever is left from brewing in a cooking recipe of some sort, and this one is great! It made fruity, flavorful little pancakes just begging to be doused in maple syrup. Yum! Ingredients: 2 cups dredge from Hippocras of Cider 1 egg 1 tsp. baking powder pinch salt…
Category: cider
Hippocras of Cider, 1676
“You may make Hippocras of Cider thus: take of cardamoms, carpobalsamum, of each half an ounce, coriander seeds, nutmegs, ginger, of each two ounces, cloves two drachmes, bruise and infuse them two days in two gallons of the riches sweet cider, often stirring it together, then add thereto of milk three pints; strain all through…
Digby’s Spiced Apple Cider
Thoughts: This recipe is loosely based on a direct recipe from Digby. In what I now believe was a misreading of the original, I decided to try what I thought was a spiced cider. The fact that there was no list of ingredients for a hippocras in Digby ought to have tipped me off, but…
Colonial Apple Beer
Thoughts: The basic idea of this beer is that it uses apple cider instead of water in the wort. It ended up quirky, in that at least half the fermenting beer was sediment in the jug. I ended up making a great bread from that sediment, and a variety of other recipes from the spent…
Maple Cider
Thoughts: I know, I know, natural fermentation is a dicey proposition, and unpredictable at best. But this recipe is very simple, with Amazing results. The flavors are rich and complex, moving from residual maple sweetness to the sour tang of the apples. Appearance-wise, it’s a nice sort of rusty color, darker than normal cider on account…
Wildling Cider
“Before Mance, Varamyr Sixskins had been a lord of sorts. He lived alone in a hall of moss and mud and hewn logs that had once been Haggon’s, attended by his beasts. A dozen villages did him homage in bread and salt and cider, offering him fruit from their orchards and vegetables from their gardens.”…
Game of Brews 