[Sca-cooks] waffles

[Johnna Holloway]

Thick Belgian style in the US are 1964 NY World's Fair.
Otherwise waffles and wafers are related. The Sensible Cook by Rose
has some of the history of the Dutch use of the terms. It's also
all in Davidson's Oxford Companion to Food.

Johnnae


>> The kid was having a belgian style waffle for supper last night and 
>> we got
>> into a "who thinks up this stuff?" conversation. I thought that waffles
>> were a decendant or at least a distant relative of wafers. Does anyone
>> know?
>> Mirhaxa
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