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Siroperie Meurens is a

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family-owned company known for making "Le Vrai

Sirop de Liège (French for ''Liège syrup'', in Flemish) is a Belgian jam or jelly-like spread. Apple and pear are principally used, often with dates: other fruit such as apricot can be used as well. Sugar and other sweeteners are not normally needed. Cor ...

", a traditional Belgian treat resembling

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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 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''. Main ingredients are apples, pears and dates. No sugar is added in the refined form but from the abundant local source of sugar beets. Trademarked in 1947, ''Sirop de Liege'' is usually served on bread as a ''tartine'' or

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, and makes a great a pairing with the regional pungent ''Fromage de Herve'' or

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it is also use as a base for meatball sauce Boulets à la Liégeoise or pancake sauce boûkète or lacquemant. Today new flavors such as apricot complete the collection, and the family is still enthousiatically producing this natural product. Beside consumer products such as "Le Vrai Sirop de Liège", "Poiret" and "Pomona" the company also diversified its portfolio into B2B solutions of purees and juice concentrates . The Siroperie offers purees and concentrates from dried fruits (Prunes, raisin, figs, dates, apricot), from fresh fruits (apple, pear) or roots (sugar beet and roasted chicory). Thus responding to the increasing demand of the industry for natural sugar alternatives in various products. In New York City the tradition is carried on, but in the form of chocolate truffles and bars.

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* *http://www.sirop-de-liege.com/en/about-our-company/about-siroperie-meurens.html *http://www.sirop-de-liege.com/ *http://www.chocolatsmeurens.com Belgian cuisine Food and drink companies of Belgium Companies based in Liège Province Aubel Fruit preserve companies