Applevariety
Minshull Crab
Also known as Englische Rambour +14
Englische Rambour · Lancashire Crab · Lancaster Crab · Minchal Crab · Minchall Crab · Minchall's Crab · Mincham Crab · Mincham's Crab · Minchin Crab · Minchin's Crab · Minchull Crab · Minshal Crab · Minshall Crab · Minsham's Crab · Minshul Crab
A cooking apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat in shape; tart, crisp, firm and bitter. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Minshull, Cheshire, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- bitter
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped/mottled
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- largeWidth 78.00 mmHeight 57.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges very weak
Origin & family
Where Minshull Crab began
Recorded origin
Minshull, Cheshire, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Culinary
- shape
- Flat
- width
- 78.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 57.00 mm
- ribbing
- very weak
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Englische Rambour, Lancashire Crab, Lancaster Crab, Minchal Crab, Minchall Crab, Minchall's Crab, Mincham Crab, Mincham's Crab, Minchin Crab, Minchin's Crab, Minchull Crab, Minshal Crab, Minshall Crab, Minsham's Crab, Minshul Crab
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Photos

National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.