Applevariety
Cockle Pippin
Also known as Brown Cockle +15
Brown Cockle · Brown Cockle Peppin · Brown Cockle Pippin · Cockle Pippin Brown · Cockle's Pippin · Cockles Pippin · Hahn's Pepping · Hahnen Peppin · Hahnen Pepping · Nutmeg Cockle · Nutmeg Cockle Pippin · Nutmeg Pippin · Pepping Hahnen · Pilot Russet · White Cockle · White Cockle Pippin
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in about 1800; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Godstone, Surrey
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- sweet to subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour brownish orange flushSkin texture waxyBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- tall to intermediate, conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 66-79 mmFruit height 65-69 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbedRusset pattern thin russet, thicker towards base
Origin & family
Where Cockle Pippin began
Recorded origin
Godstone, Surrey
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet to subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- synonyms
- Brown Cockle, Brown Cockle Peppin, Brown Cockle Pippin, Cockle Pippin Brown, Cockle's Pippin, Cockles Pippin, Hahn's Pepping, Hahnen Peppin, Hahnen Pepping, Nutmeg Cockle, Nutmeg Cockle Pippin, Nutmeg Pippin, Pepping Hahnen, Pilot Russet, White Cockle, White Cockle Pippin
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- tall to intermediate, conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 66-79 mm
- over colour
- brownish orange flush
- russet type
- thin russet, thicker towards base
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 65-69 mm
- skin texture
- waxy
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.