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Care to Sit on my Waffle?
The first waffle dates back to the thirteenth century quite by accident.
As the story goes, in England, a crusader wearing armor accidentally sat on his wife’s freshly baked oatcakes. The flattened cakes bore the imprints of the steel links in the armor. However, the crusader spread butter on the cakes and ate them anyway.
His wife, delighted with the manner in which the butter stayed in the indented portions insisted that her husband sit on the cakes weekly. This invention was first called “waffres” meaning flat honeycomb-like cakes. Waffres came to America when the Dutch colonists brought their irons to
America. These early waffre irons were very heavy, long handled and
held over an open fire.
Nothing goes better with waffles than real maple syrup.
Taken from Deborah Tukua's Food Names article published in the 2007 Farmers' Almanac.
