# Ciderkin

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**Ciderkin**, sometimes referred to as water-cider, is a kind of weak alcoholic [cider](/source/Cider) traditionally drunk by children, and made by steeping the refuse apple [pomace](/source/Pomace) in water. Ciderkin is currently listed alongside [Cheate bread](/source/Medieval_cuisine#Cereals) and Butter on the "Bill of Fare" for the [Plimoth Plantation](/source/Plimoth_Plantation) 1627 Harvest Dinner with the Pilgrims. However, according to the [Plimoth Plantation](/source/Plimoth_Plantation) Food Historian, this is not true 17th century ciderkin; Plimoth uses the term to differentiate between modern pasteurized sweet cider, which is served to guests, and period hard cider. *Stagecoach and Tavern Days*, written by [Alice Morse Earle](/source/Alice_Morse_Earle), describes a 16th-century New Hampshire settler proudly recounting "he made one barrel of cider, one barrel of water-cider, and one barrel of charming good drink" from his first apple crop of eight bushels. According to Earle:

Water-cider, or ciderkin, was a very weak, slightly cidery beverage, which was made by pouring water over the solid dregs left after the cider had been pressed from the pomace, and pressing it...sometimes a little molasses and ginger was added.

In *Berkshire Stories*, by [Morgan Bulkeley](/source/Morgan_Bulkeley), ciderkin "was deemed especially suitable for children", especially compared to the stronger ciders widely consumed during the American colonial period.

## References

- *Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary* (1913)
- *Berkshire Stories : nature, history, people, conservation*, Morgan Bulkeley (2004), ISBN 1-58420-028-6, ISBN 978-1-58420-028-4
- [*Stagecoach and Tavern Days*](https://archive.today/20130626180611/http://www.quinnipiac.edu/media/ABL/etext/stagetavern/index.html)
- [Styles of Cider](https://web.archive.org/web/20150906024112/http://www.homebrewtalk.com/wiki/index.php/Styles_of_Cider)

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