Meurens

Meurens Sirop de Liège on a tartine
Sirop de Liège with Stassen cider, another Aubel specialty
Chocolate truffle filled with apricot and apple butter, buttercream and nuts

Siroperie Meurens is a Belgian company known for making sirop de Liège, a traditional Belgian treat resembling apple butter made of local apples, pears and dates. It is the best known sirop de Liège manufacturer, selling its products under the trademark Vrai Sirop de Liège/Echte Luikse Siroop.

Created in 1902 by Clement Meurens [1] in Aubel, Belgium, Sirop Meurens is an ancestral recipe of a spreadable fruit paste, similar to marmelade or Quince paste. It takes 4 pounds of fruits to make 1 pound of Sirop.[2] Main ingredients are apples, pears and dates. No sugar is added in the refined form but from the abundant local source of sugar beets.[3] Trademarked in 1947,[1] Sirop de Liege is usually served on bread as a tartine or open sandwich, and makes a great a pairing with the regional pungent Fromage de Herve or Herve Cheese it is also use as a base for meatball sauce boulet à la liégeoise or pancake sauce boûkète [4] or lacquemant.

Today new flavors such as apricot complete the collection, and the family is still enthousiatically producing this natural product. A branch exists also that produces tailored syrups for industrial uses.[5] In New York City the tradition is carried on, but in the form of chocolate truffles and bars.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.sirop-de-liege.com/en/about-our-company/about-siroperie-meurens.html
  2. ↑ http://www.sirop-de-liege.com
  3. ↑ VERHAEGHE de NAEYER M., Siroperie Meurens, à l’ombre des poiriers en fleurs, L’Evénement 264, p9-12, octobre 1997
  4. ↑ Roger Pinon, « La boûkète liégeoise et les crêpes à la farine de sarrasin en Wallonie », in La Vie Wallonne, n° 52, 1978
  5. ↑ http://www.meurensnatural.com
  6. ↑ http://www.chocolatsmeurens.com

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