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Fabrication du sirop de li ge
Sirop de Liège (French for syrup from Liège, Luikse stroop in Dutch) is a Belgian jam or jelly-like spread made of evaporated fruit juices. Apple and pear juices are used, and date or other fruit juices can be used as well. It could be considered a form of apple butter, or a syrup, albeit a soft, solid syrup.
Contents
Sirop de Liège is created by reducing (boiling off the water from) the constituent fruit juices. After several hours, the resulting product is a soft brown paste that is just barely translucent.
Sirop de Liège, as its name would suggest, comes from the Liège region of Belgium, which roughly corresponds to the modern province of Liège. Many syrup makers were historically found there, though today syrup makers are primarily concentrated in the land of Herve region in the north-east of the province. The best known syrup maker is Meurens in the Aubel municipality, which produces two thousand tonnes of it per year under the trademark Vrai Sirop de Liège/Echte Luikse stroop. Other syrup makers include Nyssen in Aubel, Charlier in Henri-Chapelle, or Delvaux in Horion-Hozémont.
Le sirop de li ge
Culinary uses
Its primary use is as a spread, usually on a tartine. It is often accompanied by cheese, such as Herve cheese or maquée, the latter making a dish called stron d'Poye.
It is also used as a sauce or part of a sauce in numerous dishes, serving as pancake sauce on boûkète, or on lacquemant waffles, or sauce for the cooked pear dessert of cûtès Peûres. Sauces with sirop de Liège are even used in the meat dishes boulet à la liégeoise (meatballs) and lapin à la liégeoise (rabbit).
In 2015, the Sirop de Liège received a halal certificate.
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