Applevariety
Cockpit
Also known as Summer Cockpit +1
Summer Cockpit · Yorkshire Cockpit
A cooking apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape, first recorded in 1831; tart and astringent. Picked in early October.
Origin · Yorkshire
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Texture
- coarse
- Flavour
- slightly acid, astringent
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional slight orange flushSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- cream
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 62 mmFruit height 50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Cockpit began
Recorded origin
Yorkshire
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly acid, astringent
- ribbing
- ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Summer Cockpit, Yorkshire Cockpit
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 62 mm
- over colour
- occasional slight orange flush
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- cream
- fruit height
- 50 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- coarse
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.