SC - Medieval Danish cooking???

[Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir]

There is a picture of a woman making what appears to be waffles that is from
around the 1560s. This picture was in a collection of clothing pictures as a
source of middle class late SCA period garb. From the picture I saw online,
it looked very much like a modern waffle. I think it's a Dutch painter and
the title has the word waffle in it, IIRC.

I don't have my links handy, otherwise I could point people to it, if the
site still existed.

Yours,
Rosalyn MacGregor
(Pattie Rayl)
- ----- Original Message -----

> I think there are three different things here:
>
> 1. Funnel cakes (the Two Fifteenth Century Crispes, and various other
> things elsewhere, such as mincebek in _Two Anglo Norman_. )
>
> 2. Wafers (served with hippocras in Menagier): Presumably waffle
> pattern, but more like a crisp cookie, at least as I have seen them
> made.
>
> 3. Modern waffles: Waffle pattern, but thick with a pancake like texture.
>
> Off hand, I am not sure I have seen anything that is clearly made
> like a modern waffle. One thing worth checking is whether there are
> any surviving wafer irons, and if so if the separation between the
> plates is thin, as in a modern wafer iron, or thick, as in a waffle
> iron.
>
> David/Cariadoc
> http://www.daviddfriedman.com/
>