kopfhorer1
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Partly in response to the wonderful thread about crepes (which I've tried with varying degrees of success to make):
So as I'm going through boxes of stuff and deciding what stays and what goes to the thrift shop, I encounter an electric waffle iron with teflon-coated grids which I found at a garage sale 10 years ago. It's the "Sweet Hearts" kind which produces waffles with heart-shaped sections, looking kind of like an Amish hex sign. I clean it up, let it dry thoroughly, mix up a batch of non-wheat waffle batter (I used sorghum flour) and power it up. It worked fantastically! I made the first waffles that I've had in 4 years!
I don't use a recipe in the usual sense. I merely pour out about a third of a cup of flour, add half a teaspoon of aluminum-free baking powder (Rumford, Red Star, Featherweight, etc.) then add 2 eggs and enough soy milk so that it's about the consistency of heavy motor oil (and speaking of oil, a couple of tablespoons of canola oil do the deed). Hewing to my diet, I have to forgo butter 🙂(), but unfrozen apple juice concentrate makes a smashing replacement for pancake syrup, as do other 100% juice concentrates! Adding sesame seeds to the waffle batter gives them just a little bit of crunchiness and nuttiness.
So as I'm going through boxes of stuff and deciding what stays and what goes to the thrift shop, I encounter an electric waffle iron with teflon-coated grids which I found at a garage sale 10 years ago. It's the "Sweet Hearts" kind which produces waffles with heart-shaped sections, looking kind of like an Amish hex sign. I clean it up, let it dry thoroughly, mix up a batch of non-wheat waffle batter (I used sorghum flour) and power it up. It worked fantastically! I made the first waffles that I've had in 4 years!
I don't use a recipe in the usual sense. I merely pour out about a third of a cup of flour, add half a teaspoon of aluminum-free baking powder (Rumford, Red Star, Featherweight, etc.) then add 2 eggs and enough soy milk so that it's about the consistency of heavy motor oil (and speaking of oil, a couple of tablespoons of canola oil do the deed). Hewing to my diet, I have to forgo butter 🙂(), but unfrozen apple juice concentrate makes a smashing replacement for pancake syrup, as do other 100% juice concentrates! Adding sesame seeds to the waffle batter gives them just a little bit of crunchiness and nuttiness.
