Apples and honey is a traditional dish served by Ashkenazi Jews on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year's Day and the beginning of the High Holidays.

[2] Honey from wild bees is attested in the Bible and archaeologists have discovered an apiary from the 10th century BCE in Israel.

[1] The first known connection between apples and Rosh Hashanah is in the prayer book Machzor Vitry, written in 11th-century CE France.

[3] The first known mention of apples and honey being eaten on Rosh Hashanah comes from the 14th-century legal work Arba'ah Turim, which states that German Jews ate apples and honey in order to bring sweetness into the New Year.

[5] Ahead of Rosh Hashanah in English-speaking Ashkenazic schools, young schoolchildren learn the "dip the apple in the honey" song (to the tune of Oh My Darling, Clementine).