Dutch Mignonne
Also known as Belle Reinette de Caux +47
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A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, round-conical in shape, introduced in about 1820; sweet, tart, mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet and subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour stippled and striped redBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- white, tinged green
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 70 mmFruit height 50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not, or slightly ribbedRusset pattern russet marks and dots
Origin & family
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet and subacid
- ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed
- synonyms
- Belle Reinette de Caux, Casseler Reinette, Caux, Christ's Gold-Reinette, Christ's Golden Reinette, Contor, Copmanshorpe Crab, Copmanshorpe Russet, Copmansthorp Crab, Copmansthorpe Crab, Copmanthorp Crab, Copmanthorpe Crab, Copmanthorpe Russet, Craft Angry, Croft Angry, de Laak, Duitch Mignonne, Duitsch Mignonne, Duitsche Mignonne, Dutch Mignome, Dutch Minion, Dutsch Mignon, Grosse Casseler Reinette, Grosse-Reinette Rouge Tiquetee, Hollandische Goldreinette, Hollandischer Mignon, Mignonne de Hollande, Mignonne Hollandaise, Pater Noster Apfel, Paternoster, Paternoster Apfel, Paternoster Apple, Pomme de Laak, Pomme de Lack, Rawle's Reinette, Rawles Reinette, Reinette de Cassel, Reinette de Caux, Reinette de Holland, Reinette Doree, Reinette Doree de Hollande, Reinette Imperatrice, Reinette von Caux, Stettin Pippin, Stettiner Pepping, Thorpe Grabe, Vermillon d'Andalousie
- father to
- King Cole
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 70 mm
- over colour
- stippled and striped red
- russet type
- russet marks and dots
- flesh colour
- white, tinged green
- fruit height
- 50 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.