Saturday, September 30, 2023

Cider press - wood or stone

William Sidney Mount's 1840 painting of cider making in Setauket, Long Island, NY. Lancaster, Pa. cider presses 1778 and 1800.
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Cider Making. William Sidney Mount. 1840. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. HERE

Apple mills in Lancaster Dec 16, 1778

"In the greatest part of our march the inhabitants were making of cyder, for in almost every farm there is a press, though made in a different manner; some make use of a wheel made of thick oak plank, which turns upon a wooden axis, by means of a horse drawing it, and some have stone wheels, but they are mostly of the former."
Anburey, Thomas. Travel through the interior parts of America.v2. London: 1789


Lewis Miller. October 13th 1800.
Drew a picture of David Miller's hand ground in the apple mill at "George Spangler’s farm one quarter of a mile from York" [PA]. The Historical Society of York.

Apple cider press in 1840s Germany. Blog post HERE

Cider making in Devonshire, 1850. Blog post HERE
Blog posts - Apples HERE
Blog posts - Mills HERE


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