Sauce From The Apple

Sauce from the AppleAdam and eve notwithstanding, apple aficionados insist there are more tempting ways with the piquant pomme than eating it out of hand. What they have in mind is cider, hard cider in the United States, a crisp, tart-sweet, low-alcohol potable, often, though not always, effervescent. It is made by fermenting the juice of apples, just as wine is made by fermenting grapes and beer by fermenting grain. While there are similarities, cider--with its unmistakable orchard tang--is qui...