Grenadier

I finally (after 27 years) took my cooking apple to Acorn Bank to be identified.
It is a heavy cropping cooking apple tree that was growing here when we moved in.
It has white flesh and cooks to a fluffy pulp with excellent flavour. The apples ripen to a yellow colour and become quite sweet, but it doesn’t have any keeping properties so it is use it or lose it, or freeze some.
We took them into the identification room and the experts gathered round, and it was immediately recognised as Grenadier, an old variety first exhibited in 1862 in Buckinghamshire.
Now I know that , I am more pleased to have it than before!