Norfolk Beefing
Also known as Beaufin Millemont +28
Beaufin Millemont · Cat's Head · Cat's Head Beaufin · Catshead · Catshead Beaufin · Catshead Beefing · Norfolk Bearer · Norfolk Beau-Fin · Norfolk Beauffin · Norfolk Beaufin · Norfolk Beaufing · Norfolk Beefin · Norfolk Biffin · Norfolk Coleman · Ramsden · Ramsden's · Ramsdens · Read's Baker · Red Beefing · Reed's Baker · Reeds Baker · Schoener von Norfolk · Schoner von Norfolk · Taliesin · Taliesman · Tallesin · Winter Beefing · Winter Coleman · Winter Colman
A cooking apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1807; tart, mildly tart, juicy and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Norfolk, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour extensively flushed dull crimsonBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish yellow
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 76 mmFruit height 57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed base to apexRusset pattern light dots
Origin & family
Where Norfolk Beefing began
Recorded origin
Norfolk, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed base to apex
- synonyms
- Beaufin Millemont, Cat's Head, Cat's Head Beaufin, Catshead, Catshead Beaufin, Catshead Beefing, Norfolk Bearer, Norfolk Beau-Fin, Norfolk Beauffin, Norfolk Beaufin, Norfolk Beaufing, Norfolk Beefin, Norfolk Biffin, Norfolk Coleman, Ramsden, Ramsden's, Ramsdens, Read's Baker, Red Beefing, Reed's Baker, Reeds Baker, Schoener von Norfolk, Schoner von Norfolk, Taliesin, Taliesman, Tallesin, Winter Beefing, Winter Coleman, Winter Colman
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 76 mm
- over colour
- extensively flushed dull crimson
- russet type
- light dots
- flesh colour
- greenish yellow
- fruit height
- 57 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.