Birnenhonig

Pear honey, also known as pear syrup, pear juice, Birähung or pear concentrate, is an opaque, viscous, brown to black-brown, thickened juice from pears - sometimes used for this are also apples - which occurs mainly in central Switzerland.

Similar products such as vin cuit, Raisinée be made ​​in the cantons of Vaud, Fribourg, Neuchâtel and Jura. The commercial version of pear honey is called Birnel and is produced by the company Unipektin in Eschenz.

Use

Pear honey is used today mainly as a spread or to sweeten or as an ingredient in the Lucerne Gingerbread. He often serves as a combination to jacket potatoes ( boiled potatoes ) or forties. During World War II pears honey milk was an alternative to coffee with milk because of the scarcity of coffee. Before sugar was distributed, the bees were fed sugar as food in certain regions Pear honey.