At Chaldon Church 6pm onwards
Chaldon History Group supported this free community event run by Pippin and Gile: Bushcraft, Foraging and Countryside Crafts.
About 36 people came to the evening event and watched the apple pressing, or took a turn themselves – both adults and children, to make juice in the traditional way. There was chutney to taste, made using a post World War II recipe from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and matured over years. There were seven different varieties of apple to taste and mulled apple juice heated over the firepit.
You could find in the quiz about the history of the apple and how it arrived in the UK and where it came from. And test how well you knew apple vocabulary – including pippin, costermonger and pomology. There were books about old school ways of processing and keeping apples.
People brought apples to be pressed and took away juice in bottles. Others brought plastic bottles or other containers in the hope/ expectation of taking some juice home!
