Beereflare – Pear Jam Cake

A simple but delicious cake recipe:

Beereflare was given in the Hunsrück for all wedding celebrations, child baptisms and for the Kerp (fair, church consecration). This recipe comes from the small village of Holzbach near Simmern, where it is still popularly baked today. In the past, small round, thick pears were collected for the Beereflare, the so-called Faatsbeer, a pear growing wild in the Hunsrück forests. For drying, the pears were quartered and dried in the Backes (bread oven of the municipality) after the bread baking, with the heat still present in the stove. The pear slices were kept in linen bags until baking and hung in the attic. The Beereflare is baked today also with other pears, the more aromatic the pear is, the more delicate tastes the cake later.

The dough for the Beereflare is prepared according to the basic recipe for yeast dough. Pour the prepared yeast dough into a greased springform pan, press up the edge. If you want to cover the cake with a striped lattice, you can use 2/3 of the dough for the base and roll out the other third. Then wheel out strips to finish by placing over the topping like a lattice. For the topping, soak the pear slices overnight in cold water and cook them in this clear soup. Then they are always passed through a sieve again, first through a sieve with coarse holes, later through a finer sieve. Add enough sugar until the pear puree is dark brown.

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