Aihuxi.106 net.cooks utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!harpo!npois!houxi!ihnss!ihuxi!cjy Tue Mar 23 10:19:22 1982 Belgian Waffles The following recipe is taken from the Herter's cook book that was recently described on the net. The original text prattles on for about 4 pages talking about how this treat is served at all the World Fairs and that the fair in New York was, in the opinion of the author , a bummer. Finally, however, he gets around to the following: Belgian Waffles ( also called Gaufres ) *** Ingredients: 2 1/4 cups of cake flour 3/4 cup of white sugar ( original recipe used honey - there was no sugar around then. ) 1 cake fresh yeast ( original recipe used fermenting beer ) 3 whole eggs 1 tsp. vanilla ( original recipe used none - it was not known in Europe then ) 1 cup lukewarm milk 1/4 tsp. salt 2 tbsp. butter *** Topping 1 ounce powdered sugar 1 pint of whipping cream 1 tsp. almond extract 1 half pint of fresh strawberries or strawberry jam 4 tbsp. sugar *** Assembly Algorithm Take a large mixing bowl and place the flour, salt, and sugar in it. Mix well. Make a hole in the center of the flour. Mix the yeast into the lukewarm milk and place in the hole in the flour. Beat the eggs and add to the hole. Finally melt the butter and place it in the hole as well. Mix all this together ( the author recommends using your hands ) to a consistency of a cream sauce ( thicken/thin with flour/milk ). Let the mixture stand for about 4 hours while covered with a moistened cloth. The mixture will raise a great deal so start out with a fairly large bowl. Oil your waffle iron and cook the waffles as you normally do. This is a really great waffle if you stop here and just serve it with maple syrup and butter, but if you really want to load on the calories, read on. *** Finishing Whip the cream and add the almond extract and four tbsp. of white sugar. Spread a generous layer of whipped cream and top with the strawberries. Dust the top of the waffle with powdered sugar. This is a super dish and one that really brings rave reviews. It does, however, have one drawback and that is its long preparation time. The four hours to raise the dough can be shortened somewhat by putting the bowl in an oven that is warmed by only the pilot light. Even so, it still takes a couple of hours to raise the waffles so perhaps instead of using this recipe for breakfast, you may want to use it for Sunday brunch instead. Enjoy! Chuck Young at ihuxi!cjy ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.