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Wafers
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Published 2000
Wafers are among the oldest types of cookies still made. In fact, the predecessors of pâtissiers or pastry cooks in France were known as oublayeurs, the makers of a type of ancient wafer. And delicate wafers of this type survive to this day in France and especially in Scandinavia.
These pleasantly old-fashioned cookies are made in an iron, like waffles. Some, like pizzelle, are probably familiar. Though these used to be made in stove-top irons, electric pizzelle makers are fairly common nowadays (some of them actually have reversible plates that allow then to double as standard breakfast-waffle irons).