Waffles For Breakfast, Pancakes For Dinner And Legends Of Waffles
Then around AD 2010, the chain pancake houses returned. People rushed to patronize these shops in Central Ohio until Yelp and Google reviews filled up the online sites with negative opinions about poor service, long wait times, overcharges, and failure to receive complete orders. It was not yesterday's House of pancakes and a recent burger promotion chancing the name to IHOB temporarily did not help.
Units in this chain of restaurants do much better according to customer reports in Florida and elsewhere. Click thumbnail to view full-size You see, everywhere I've lived, except for recently, the stove top and oven have been off kilter or non-working for a time - and pancakes in a microwave just bounce.
I've read the microwave cookbooks and tried the frozen pancakes in a box, all to no avail. Pancakes must be real and cooked on the stove top or even a grill outdoors. That being true, I like pancakes better for dinner and waffles in the morning or at brunch. These two flat foods taste different, smell different, and have a different consistency - a little like Coke versus Pepsi and I like those at different times of day as well. Overall, though, I like Lime Coke and Lemon Pepsi, but all types of waffles.
A young child once asked me at a gathering why we have to iron waffles. That was very funny and we all had a good time preparing waffles that day in an educational yet tasty way. I remembered that not only did my father's family in the Midwest have some of the first curling irons around, they also had a few of the early electric waffle irons as well and the old manual types.
During the American Civil War, the American waffle iron was non-electric and made of two scored iron plates much like shallow skillets with a raised grid inside. You poured batter in one, covered it with the other, and cooked one side at a time over a fire in the wood-burning oven or even outdoors when the apple butter was being made over a large fire. When cooked through, you could put apple butter right on them, but syrups, butter, honey, and even homemade jellies were all used.
1100 Old Fashioned Waffle Iron, Cast IronIf you do not have an old fashioned waffle iron, this is a particularly good one that I enjoy quite often. Be sure to use oven mitts when handling the metal handles. This setup cooks more evenly than an electric waffle maker, and I've never been burned on it. On August 24, 1869, Corneilius Swartwout patented the waffle iron.
Waffle Week is celebrated in September. In 2009, Time Magazine traced waffle history to the Ancient Greeks, who also used two metal plates together in an arrangement to cook flat cakes. The idea seems to have worked well and gained momentum through the centuries. The researchers at Time reported that the word "waffle" comes from the word "wafer", which was used and still is central for communion in the Catholic Church and other denominations.
Imagine a waffle as a big communion wafer! A waffle industry grew up in Europe and I like the fact that the French formed a waffle guild to train street vendors in making and selling the best waffles. Chaucer even wrote about waffles in the 1300s in his The Canterbury Tales.
Where I must take issue with the Time report is the bit about Pilgrims trekking to Holland and bringing waffles back to England and then to North America. Truly, the people who became known later as Pilgrims did not have any flour with them and their grain crop failed as well. They learned about corn cakes from the local Indigenous People, some of my ancestors among them. Other sources say that Dutch Pilgrims came straight to America in 1620, with their waffle irons and flour.
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