Spiced pomegranate Apple Cider / Non Alchoholic Apple Cider Recipe

Ingredients

• Apples: 4-5
• Sugar: 1/4-1/2 cup
• Cinnamon: 2 sticks
• All spice: 1 tbsp
• Pomegranate juice: 1 cup

Method

• Quarter your apples (no need to remove peel or seeds)
• In a stock pot add your apples and fill with water-just enough to cover the apples.
• Add sugar.
• Wrap your cinnamon and allspice in a doubled up cheese cloth (muslin cloth) and tie, add this to the apples and water.
• Boil on high for 1/2 hour (uncovered) checking on it frequently.
• Simmer for one hour (covered).
• Let it cool, remove spices and mash up the apples to a pulp like consistency(use a potato masher)
• once cool pour into a strainer over a large bowl. when most of the juice has drained away, put remainder of the pulp into a doubled up cheese cloth and squeeze over the bowl until no more juice comes out.
• You can store in an air tight container in your refrigerator for up to a week.
• While serving add pomegranate juice to this apple cider and reheat in a microvave or on stove top.