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The
Gusmers grew up on apple cider in New Jersey. One Christmas
after they moved to South Carolina in 1978, Fritz' mother
gave them a wooden apple cider press. The Gusmers and
their children spent hours making cider.
Fritz
supported the family as a general contractor and traveled
a good deal. He and Catherine were searching for something
he could do that would involve the entire family and
allow him to stay close to home.
The
quest for a true apple cider doughnut finally gave them
the solution. They could grow apples, press cider and
make the doughnuts they'd been craving. Windy Hill Orchard
and Cider Mill was born. |
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Gusmers grow specialty and antique apples, which are
ready to pick every 7-10 days from August to Thanksgiving.
Importing additional apples from North Carolina to meet
the demand, Windy Hill Orchard produces up to 35,000
gallons of cider a year, hundreds of dozens of pies
and doughnuts, 500 quarts of apple butter and countless
icy apple cider slushies. |
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One taste of a hot apple cider doughnut and you will
understand the quest that led to this business. Those
in the know start coming the first week of September
for the hot, fresh doughnuts.
Windy
Hill Orchard continues to grow and involves the entire
family.
Excerpt
from article entitled, "You Don't Get Apple Cider
From a Cow" by Jayne Scarborough.
Based
on an article appearing in Sandlapper The South Carolina
Magazine, Autumn
1997. |
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