Thursdays are Breakfast for Dinner night (our general menu plan). We had waffles, apples, and turkey sausage. I used this Pure Maple Syrup that I bought with the $25 sign up bonus for Stamps.com. I was really thinking of buying knitting books, but ended up doing the perhaps more useful thing and buying real maple syrup with it. I know Sally Fallon says that some syrup is processed with formaldehyde but I haven’t gotten that far in my research to know if this is or not. But I do know it’s healthier than the GMO corn syrup junk that’s in imitation maple syrup.
It’s been a while since we had real maple syrup, I forgot how sweet it was. This was way too much, had to soak some of it up with another waffle. The waffles turned out really well, better than I was expecting.
To make, we pulled out our soaked wheat from Wednesday’s bread. I poured 2-1/2ish cups of what was in the bowl into my 4-cup Pyrex measuring cup since I vacuumed and did laundry rather than dishes this afternoon ~grin~. This isn’t going to be an exact recipe, but I added about half a cup of coconut milk/cream (the stuff in the can) for my fat, 3 eggs, a grind of coarse sea salt, a dab of honey (maybe 2 tablespoons), and the rest of the apple sauce that was lingering in the fridge, about 1/2 a cup. After I was mixing that all up, I remembered I needed baking soda so I added that (1/2 teaspoon). And also decided to add the juice of a lemon for a little more flavor. I ended up adding 1/2 a cup of white flour in too, just because the batter was really runny.
The lemon reacted right away with the baking soda, and foamed up. Remember baking soda/vinegar volcanoes in science class? Same thing. I thought this might ‘use up’ the baking soda’s rising power, but it didn’t, the waffles still came out nice and light.
Finished mixing. I cooked them a little longer than the waffle iron said to, and then put them on the back of the cast iron skillet that I was cooking turkey sausage on to crisp them up a little more and keep them warm. I still am using a waffle iron with nonstick coating, I know I need to figure out an alternative to that. Any suggestions?
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One minor drawback is that the radiator does get quite hot.
So you won’t have to stumble around in the middle of the night to turn up or down the heater. Christmas stockings make for a fire hazard if they are too close to the flames or not secured well enough and they actually fall into the fire.
There is such thing as a cast iron waffle maker. You use it on the stove. I don’t think you’d have crisping problems with that lol