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Hambledon Deux Ans
type: Cooking, Pie, Sauce
synonyms: Ashridge Pine Apple, Black Blenheim, Blue Stone Pippin, Bluestone Pippin, Grahams, Green Blenheim, Green Kitchen, Hambledon, Hamilton’s, Jewsams, Mitchell’s Seedling, Mr. Prothero, Pine Apple Pippin, Pudding, Pudding Apple, Smiling Beauty, Somersetshire Deux Ans, Stone’s Blenheim, Winter Hillier, Yorkshire Queen
identification: Large, round sometimes round conic. Can be lopsided and sometimes ribbed. Skin base colour is green ripening to golden yellow over which is a dark red blush ripening to orange and covering about three quarters of the apple. Often streaked red. Patches of greyish russet. The eye is small and closed, set in a medium deep and medium wide basin. The stem is very short and set in a shallow, wide and russeted cavity. Tough skinned.
characteristics: Flesh is cream coloured, coarse grained. Firm and dry. Sweet and flavourful. Brisk.
uses: Used primarily for cooking. Makes a sweet, flavourful, golden yellow sauce. Can also be used in pies and tarts, holding its shape well.
origins: Arose in about 1750 in Hambledon, Hampshire. Popular in 19th Century when it was said that every Hampshir garden had a Deusans tree . Commercially grown in Kent. May still be found in old gardens in Hampshire and Sussex.
cultivation: Vigorous, spreading spur bearer.
cold storage: Said to keep for two years in storage, hence its name Deux Ans which is French for two years . Realistical it keeps well for about five months in cold storage.
harvest: In the first half of the fourth period.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
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