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American Grindling
type: Cooking, Culinary, Sauce
identification: Large tending to very large, round and angular. The green base colour is flushed dull red on the sun-exposed face. Light coloured, faint lenticels. The calyx is closed and small, set in a ribbed, medium deep and wide basin which is surrounded by an irregular, knobbed crown. The stem is short and slender, set in a shallow, wide cavity. The skin is tough and has a greasy feel.
characteristics: The flesh is tan coloured, coarse-grained, soft. Dry and acidic.
uses: A cooking apple which makes a brisk, lemon yellow sauce.
origins: Originated in the U.S.A. Mentioned in A.F. Barron's 1883 "British Apples Illustrated."
cultivation: Moderately vigorous.
cold storage: Keeps up to a month.
harvest: Toward the end of the third period, sometimes the beginning of the fourth.
pollination group: E
pollination peak: 18
ploidism: Self sterile. Group D Day 15
cold storage weeks: 4
harvest period: 3
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