October apple cider donut from the Apple Hill farms on the Camino-Placerville road, 45 minutes east of Sacramento. Sold warm at the farm stand.

Apple Hill on the Camino-Placerville road in El Dorado County took shape in the 1960s when an apple-grower cooperative banded together to keep family farms in the Sierra foothills viable. The cider-donut tradition came from the Northeast US apple-cider mills and travelled west with the apple farmers; by the 1980s every Apple Hill farm had a donut stand and a press. The October season runs four weekends with traffic backed up on US-50 east from Sacramento, and the donut, fried in apple cider with cinnamon-sugar dredge, is the photograph everyone takes across the long-running grower anchors of the cooperative.

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