Whey vinegar
Vinegar made by fermenting the lactose of cheese whey to alcohol with a Kluyveromyces yeast and then to acetic acid; sold in Switzerland as Lactavinaigre from the 1950s.
Belgium
Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.
Belgium
Limburgse stroop
Limburgse stroop is a regional family of cooked fruit syrups from Dutch and Belgian Limburg. Producers blend apples, pears and beet differently, so no single formula exists.
Cramique
A tender Belgian wheat loaf enriched with milk, butter and egg, with raisins scattered through the crumb. Cramique is sliced for breakfast or a snack, often with butter, jam or chocolate cream.
Belgian pistolet
A crisp Belgian roll made from a supplier’s Croc-flour dough, mixed by hand or machine, proofed in rounds and baked with steam.
Faluche of Northern France
A pale, softly baked, low-profile bread associated with northern France and Tournai. This source-specific household method makes four large faluches; it differs from older accounts of leftover bread dough baked during communal bread baking.
Gueuze
Belgian beer blended from young and mature spontaneously fermented lambics, then refermented in the bottle to natural carbonation. The recipe follows a 2,600-litre blend studied in 2024.