Saturday, October 26, 2013

Light, Fluffy, Waffles

This blog has sorta turned into a breakfast blog.  I'll post some no breakfast food eventually. Anyhoo, these are by far the best waffles you'll ever taste, super crisp, light, and airy.  The basic recipe comes from Cookwise by Shirley Corriher which happens to be an amazing book.  When I saw a waffle recipe that uses yeast I just had to try it.  Unfortunately it just seemed like I was never in a place where I both had the book and a waffle iron; I was either at school with the book or at my parent's with the iron so once I moved back home, this was the first thing I did.  I really can't recommend this recipe enough.

1/2 cup warm water
1 packet dry active yeast (2 1/4 tsp)
2 cups warm whole milk
1 tbsp sugar
9 1/2 oz AP flour
2 tbsp semolina flour
3 eggs, separated
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp cream of tartar
3/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp corn syrup
1 and 1/4 stick of butter, melted
1/2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)

1.  combine the warm water, yeast, and sugar together and let sit for 5 minutes to let the yeast wake up. if after 5 minutes it's not bubbly, something is wrong and you need to start over with newer yeast.
2. mix in the milk, flour, salt, vanilla (if using) and melted butter. mix until smooth. set aside for at least 1 1/2 hours; overnight is better.
3. right before you are about to make the waffles, whip the egg whites and cream of tartar in a bowl (metal or glass, no plastic) until stiff peaks.
4. mix the egg yolks, corn syrup, and baking soda into the flour yeast mixture.
5. mix 1/3 of the egg whites into the batter. then fold the remaining 2/3 in, in 2 segments.  the batter is pretty thin so it's a little annoying to try to fold egg whites in but just power through, it's worth it.
6. dish into your pre-heated waffle iron and cook according to your waffle iron's instruction.  since it's leaven mostly by steam you'll need the iron to be as hot as it can go most likely; just mess around with it and you'll find the right setting and timing for your iron. serve immediately with syrup/whip cream/ butter/ ice cream/ fried chicken/ whatever you like.

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