SC - Kid Slaughtering age

[BalthazarBlack@aol.com]

>Drake commented: 
>> If you can get your hands on a wafer iron, I have a great "coeliac friendly"
>> saffron wafer recipe.
>
>Please post this! I'd love to have another wafer recipe. Is this, even
>better, a period recipe? The only other "saffron" wafer recipe I have
>is from the Polish cookbook discussed here recently. And I never got
>it to stick together in one piece. Lots of crumbly, good tasting, pretty
>fragments. But a pain to clean off the wafer iron and not exactly 
>a "wafer".

Um, O dear.  That was the recipe I used!!!  I just modified it so it used Rice
flour instead. Spank me for being naughty and modifying a period recipe for my
nefarious purposes. I found the wafers crumbly too but the recipe is skewed
wrong so it ends up with the wrong consistancy.  Wafer batter should be stiff
like waffle batter.  I can look at the recipe tonight if you wish...

Did you lightly brush the iron with butter?

I also found that no matter how little a dollop I put in the middle, I also got
mixture squirting out the side and I noticed that there are two ways of cooking
the wafer.

1) Put a dollop of batter on and press down really quick and hard.  Makes a
very thin wafer.
2) Put a dollop of batter on, wait 20-30 secs and press down slowly for a
thicker wafer (and not so much shooting out the side). Works for looser
batters.

What kind of wafer maker do you have?  I have one of the swedish cast iron ones
with a scroll pattern.  I produces a 4-in diameter circular wafer.  My pelican
has about 3, handed down to her from her Norwegian Mother.

Cheers,

Drake.

ps.  Anyone else out there have a wafer iron and some funky wafer recipes.  How
     common was it to serve wafers at a feast?

pps. At Lochac's Midwinter, I spent all Sunday morning cranking out Rosewater
     wafers.  They were a huge hit.  We actually had 6 year old, in total gales
     of tears.  When asked by two ladies, he said 'I didn't get a pancake'. 
     After being regaled of this story as we were cleaning up, I cranked out a
     small batch of batter and made him a couple.  Never seen a set of eyes
     light up when he was presnted with 3 'pancakes' just for him.  A magical
     moment (which are rare for me in the SCA these days).

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