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National Apple Cider Day

National Apple Cider Day is held on November 18. United States. This event in the second decade of the month November is annual.

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The first recorded references to cider date back to Roman times; in 55 BCE Julius Caesar found the Celtic Britons fermenting cider from native crabapples. The people of northern Spain were making sidra before the birth of Christ.

Apples are to cider as grapes are to wine. It takes about 36 pieces of fruit to make one gallon of the apple cider. In the 14th Century children were baptised in cider, it was cleaner than the water. In England, between the 13th and the 19th centuries, farm workers' wages included four pints of cider a day.

On November 18th, 1307 The legendary William Tell shot an apple from his son’s head. November 18th is now National Apple Cider Day in the UK.

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