Pumpkin Cider
Ingredients
1 pie pumpkin (sugar pumpkin)
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 ½ tsp. cinnamon
64 oz. unsweetened, organic apple juice
1 cinnamon stick
1 tsp. vanilla
1 orange, sliced in wedges
Whole cloves
Preparation
Remove top from pumpkin, scoop out seeds and scrape sides clean. Cut into quarters. Sprinkle wedges with cinnamon and nutmeg. Bake at 375 degrees until tender – about one hour. Remove from oven and cool. Then, put it in the slow cooker or a stove top pot.
Pour apple juice into stove top pot or slow cooker. Add cinnamon sticks, vanilla and cloves (sticking cloves into orange wedges makes them easier to remove from the finished cider). Turn heat on to medium. Once cider has reached a low boil, turn heat to low and simmer for about an hour. Pot can be kept on low during the day. The longer it is allowed to simmer, the more the pumpkin and spices infuse with the cider.
