The Cider Makers' Hand Book A Complete Guide For Making and Keeping Pure Cider

J.M. Trowbridge

Published by Orange Judd Co, New York, 1893

About this Item

"Few Americans, indeed, have ever tasted a perfect cider" wrote J.M. Trowbridge in the introduction of The Cider Makers Hand Book. He was surprised that despite the country s technological advances and abundance of apples, "probably nine-tenths of all the cider made is utterly spoiled…and is unfit for human consumption, as well as entirely unmerchantable." Trowbridge attributed this issue to a general lack of knowledge among cider makers. "The fact…is due more to want of general information of plain and practical kind, based on scientific facts, in regard to the few and simple requirements to be observed in making and keeping cider, than to any other cause." In response, Trowbridge undertook to write a practical guide for cider makers. As Trowbridge writes: "The cider makers must learn how to make cider correctly…It is to instruct cider makers that these pages have been written. The instruction given, when followed faithfully and intelligently, will produce a perfectly pure and wholesome beverage." 12mo, bound in original green embossed cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Corners, head and tail of spine bumped and mildly frayed. Both boards have some soiling and are faded at top and bottom edges. A few small ink spots at top of several pages. Edges and several pages are lightly foxed. Pages lightly toned. Else, in Very Good condition. .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Cider Makers' Hand Book A Complete Guide For Making and Keeping Pure Cider
• Publisher: Orange Judd Co, New York
• Publication Date: 1893
• Binding: Hardcover
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