William Woys Weaver

Waffles, or Iron Cakes

1660

Preparation info
  • Yield: Approximately

    6

    Large Waffles.
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Christmas Cook: Three Centuries of American Yuletide Sweets
The Christmas Cook

By William Woys Weaver

Published 1990

  • About

Waffles were once an extremely popular Christmas dish, traced to the Netherlands, where they seem to have first developed. Many Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 1500s and 1600s show them, often in connection with Saint Nicholas Day.

Waffle and wafer irons from the nineteenth century.

Recipes for Dutch waffles begin to turn

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