New England Boiled Cider Pie

When I went up to New Hampshire to interview cookbook author Ken Haedrich, I spent two days with Ken, his wife, Karen, and their three kids (now four), breathing clean air, walking along wooded roads and by the creek that runs alongside their house.

It was Ken who first told me about boiled cider, sold in bottles, and he gave me one to take along with me. Fresh apple cider is boiled in modified maple syrup evaporators until it is reduced to about one-tenth of its original volume. It