SC - Waffles and Books

[david friedman]

At 10:25 AM -0500 6/30/00, Rosalyn MacGregor wrote:

>My question, since I discovered the wonderful news about waffles being
>period, is would it be proper to put waffles on the table at a feast? Did
>waffles get served to nobles?

Something that is either a wafer or a waffle (I think originally the 
same word) seems to have been the standard accompaniment to hypocras, 
judging by Le Menagier. But it sounds from Le Menagier more like the 
sort of thin, crisp thing one makes with a wafer iron. I haven't 
figured out how one distinguishes in the cookbooks between that and a 
waffle, given that the most obvious difference is how far apart the 
two metal plates of the wafer/waffle iron are.

David/Cariadoc
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