Cox's Orange Pippin

If nothing else, the name is cool - Cox's Orange Pippin.

Today was our first taste of this antique apple.  The skin is thin, rough, and won't take a polish.  The interior is firm, slightly sour, juicy, and with a lovely bouquet.  In Great Britain it is considered a dessert apple.  It was introduced in the early 1800s.

According to Cummins  https://shop.cumminsnursery.com/shop/apple-trees/coxs-orange-pippin:

Cox Orange Pippin is a Ribston Pippin seedling first planted by retired brewer Richard Cox around 1825.

This a well known, classic, very fine eating apple, common in England. Also excellent for all-around processing. Flavor enhanced by ripening off the tree. The fruit is medium sized, pale green with red stripes, flushed orange. It has firm, tender, juicy flesh, with a distinctive aroma and flavor. Flavors include citrus, spice, and rose. Crisp and and tender.

We had three apples this year.  One has a hole, one is still on the tree, and this one.  We hope for more in years to come!  It's really good.

The parent of Cox's Orange Pippin is the Ribstone Pippin (early 18th Century), immortalized in the Hilaire Belloc poem:

The False Heart

I said to Heart, "How goes it?" Heart replied: 

'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!' But it lied.