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serve and distil their abundance of fruit to create fiery liqueurs, winter compotes and
thick-as-honey syrups for baking or spreading on bread.
The Botzi pear cultivated around Gruyères is deemed precious enough to have its own
AOC. Bite into it as nature intended or try it with local
crème de Gruyères
, the thickest
cream ever.
Cuisses de dame
(lady's thighs) are sugary deep-fried thigh-shaped pastries,
found in French-speaking cantons next to
amandines
(almond tarts). Apart from the ubi-
quitous
Apfelstrudel
(apple pie), typically served with runny vanilla sauce, German can-
tons cook up
Vermicelles,
a chestnut-cream creation resembling something like spaghetti.
Then, of course, there is chocolate…
Handmade chocolates
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