Street Snack · Syrup Tartine
Tartine au Sirop de Liège
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The syrup itself contains no added sugar — just pears, apples and sometimes dates, cooked down for hours until they caramelize on their own.
A thick slice of bread spread generously with dark, almost black sirop de Liège, a slow-reduced pear-and-apple syrup, sometimes topped with a slice of local cheese. Sold at Liège's Sunday La Batte market, one of Belgium's oldest open-air markets.
Why it's made this way: Liège has grown pears and apples in its orchards for centuries, and cooking the surplus fruit down into a keepable syrup was a practical way to preserve the harvest through winter, long before it became a market snack in its own right.
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