What do they do?
Tipperary's fertile pastures are ideal for apple orchards and at Cornelius Trass's, (The) Apple Farm in Cahir; he knows that they have made the most of what Mother Nature provided. Con's orchards produce juicy, crisp apples that in turn give their bright, fresh flavours to the handmade and pressed apple juice, ciders and vinegars that Con produces right there on the farm. No less than twelve different sorts of apple are grown at The Apple Farm; however the Karmine Sonnaville and Bramley's Seedlings are the varieties used for the juice, which are handpicked, matured for a few weeks before hand pressing to extract all the natural juice and flavours from the fruit. No filtration is used, just a natural overnight settling followed by gentle pasteurization, which prolongs the life of the juice but maintains all the original qualities of premium apples. An unfiltered apple juice takes on an opaque, cloudy appearance, quite natural, and has unique, palate-cleansing fresh flavours on the tongue.
Why do we love them?
The perfect ingredient to any of those home made pickles you have been debating making!