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Alfred George Wright 1875 - 1951, lived in Jersey after 1905 and taught art at various schools in the island. He painted many scenes of Jersey. This etching is called ‘Cider Press’ is undated in the foreground is the horse drawn cider mill, at the rear is a cloth and rack press. In Jèrriais, the traditional language of Jersey a cider mill is called tou d'preinseu #cider #ChanelIslands #Jesey #painting #etching www.teepeecider.co.nz

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Cobwebs in the poundhouse ( apple processing area) . Leave them alone they hold spores of the wild yeasts such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae which ferment the juice. Each pound house has its own unique flora that live there on the cobwebs press cloths etc. Contrary to popular belief only scanty yeats are found on the freshly picked apples. #cider #yeast #poundhouse

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Poundhouse is the word for the place where apples are crushed and pressed to make cider. First recorded in 1646 in Devon “The Pownd howse: The Apple pownd or Press.“ in M. Cash, Devon Inventories 16th & 17th Century.

And again in W Marshall, Rural Economy W England vol 1 page 224 “The ordinary place of manufacture [of cider], provincially the ‘pound house’,—is generally a mean shed or hovel”.