My grandma always used to make delicious apple pies, all home made of course with sweet stewed apples and a sultanas for an irresistible filling. Recently I discovered that baking can be a lot of fun and that my housemates very much appreciate all sorts of pies after a nice Sunday roast. Having experimented with rhubarb/strawberry, forest fruit and all other combinations I will stick to my favourite: a classic, sweet apple pie! Cooking and or baking for 5 people is not an easy job and I think that if you were looking for this review you will agree on that. Hartley´s Bramley Apple Filling is the perfect solution if you want to cook but don´t have enough time to ...  Read the complete review

When the weather was colder, I developed a bit of an addiction to hot puddings and custard . As a busy mum though, I didn't really have time to make them from scratch, so purchased a lot of cheats ingredients, one of them being Hartley's Fruit Filling Bramley Apple , which comes in a large 395g ring pull can and costs a little under £1. This can be found on the bakery aisle in most supermarkets. This can be used for all sorts of things - pies , tarts, even danish pastries. My favourite way to use these though was in a crumble, simply putting the tins contents into a buttered baking dish and patting the topping down on top . For those who are really short on ...  Read the complete review

Hartley's Fruit Filling Bramley Apple can be found along side canned fruits on the shelves and maybe by the home baking section sometimes. It's a 395g tin, about enough filling for an apple pie and costs around the 94p mark. It's ideal for pastries, pies, turnovers, crumbles, etc. Ingredients include: Apples (47%), water, sugar, modified maize starch. Amazingly enough the tin was full of cubed apples with little sugar syrup sauce, I thought it would have less apple pieces and more sauce, as at the supermarket I was contemplating whether to purchase 1 or 2 tins. In the end I purchased 1 tin as I thought it would be terrible and might be a waste of ...  Read the complete review

I personally love apple pie and apple crumble, but don't always have the time to peel and stew the apples etc. I saw Hartleys fruit filling of bramley apple and thought I would give it a go. At just under a pound for one 395 gram tin, I felt this good value as it is a well know brand too. The tin itself has a green wrapping with apples and apple pie pictures to the front, along with the product name and brand. Turning the tin around, they list the ingredients:- apple, water, sugar and modified maize starch. I did find this slightly disappointing. They stated the apple content at 47% (I would like a little more), but they did not state how much of the others ...  Read the complete review