‘Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness.’
- Jane Austin

Delightful From Tart to Finish

With crisp apples, buttery pastry and Fortnum's palm-oil free Pecan & Maple Butter, this autumnal tart is a perfect pud to round off your next Sunday Roast.

Folklore (Apple) Core

Aside from being one of our most versatile fruits, apples are steeped in symbolism and have been at the core of British folklore for centuries. You might be familiar with these apple-y adages, but we bet you didn't know how they came to fruition.

An Apple A Day - A common saying in England since the 19th century, this familiar proverb originated in Pembrokeshire almost 100 years earlier and is actually a variant on the original rhyme 'Eat an apple on going to bed and you'll keep the doctor from earning his bread.'

The Apple Of My Eye - Coming from a Hebrew expression that literally means ‘little man of the eye,' this phrase refers to the reflection of yourself in another's eye and, contrary to popular belief, has no romantic connotations.

A Rotten Apple - Coined by William Shakespeare in The Taming of The Shrew and still used in popular culture today, the rotten apple has endured over the centuries with almost no alteration to the original meaning.

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