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Wafers Recipe


Wafers Recipe
Recipe by Daniel Myers / While this recipe is from the seventeenth century (and therefore post-medieval) it's the most authentic one I have at this point. Surprisingly there are very few medieval recipes for wafers or waffles. Perhaps I'm not looking... More

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Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/3 cup cream
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 Tbsp. rose water
  • 3 Tbsp. sugar
  • pinch cinnamon
  • pinch salt

Directions
  1. Mix ingredients together well.
  2. Spoon out into a wafer (or pizzelle) maker and cook to desired doneness.
  3. The wafers will keep for weeks in a sealed, airtight container.
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  5. Source [The English Housewife, G. Markham]: To make Wafers To make the best Wafers, take the finest wheat-flowers you can get, and mix it with Cream, the yelks of Eggs, Rose-water, Sugar, and Cinamon, till it be a little thicker than Pancake-batter, and then warming your Wafter Irons on a charcoal-fire, anoint them first with sweet Butter, and than lay on your batter, and press it, and bake it white or brown at your pleasure.

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OK..this is different


Good redaction, and sounds tasty. The combination of egg and rosewater is unusual--the sulfur of the egg often overwhelms the rose. I want to try these!


Great post! While still warm bend them over small bowls to cool, voila! instant ice cream dish.


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