Brings back a memory . . .
My RN wife and I had just arrived in Spokane the day before--or there abouts--to live upstairs of another Christian Shrink and his wife and two kids in a large former RC parish house on South Hill.
He had just gotten a new apple cider press.
He thought it quite kosher to chunk the apples in the cider press worms and all.
But the best was yet to come.
Both kids had colds. Runny noses and the whole sheeebang.
Both kids would take a bite of apple . . . snot running freely down onto the apple being bitten into . . . and after a bite or two of the mucus anointed apple . . . in it would go into the cider press with the worms and all the rest.
Whereupon daddy would offer RN wife and I a drink of the gloriously fresh apple juice/cider.
We . . . restraining out gag reflexes . . . declined as graciously as we could. I think I actually took a courtesy sip or two. Wife did not let any touch her lips, as I recall.
People can sure be funny. Especially the guy in my mirror.
I am sure home school people do that as to many private schools like the Waldorf School.
And if you lay it by, in a keg, well ambrosia is one of the few words that come to mind.
Cider pressing with a bunch of friends and a nice bring a dish to pass meal is a blast. We are missing so much because we don't do things like this in our culture any more.
If you add some yeast and sugar and put it in the cellar, (or linen closet) it will be real good in about a month....