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In the cider making counties of England of course they press the cider apples with a cider press. Then it is fermented. In the old days a rat was placed in the cider (dead of course) when the rat had dissolved the cider was ready!
Of course wassailing the cider trees is still done all over.
Regards from a cold England.
Neil.
