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Waffles Are Bread, Too!

I got up this morning intending to make bread at some point today. I still am, and I'll report to you tonight! But Herself said, "Can you make chocolate-chip waffles today?" So of course I said, "Yes!" I knew that Everything Bread had some waffle recipes in it, and I thought this would be a great opportunity to get another recipe under my belt.

Well, it turns out that there's a recipe for Chocolate Waffles (page 192); but what we both wanted was regular waffles with chocolate chips. So instead, I used the Belgian Waffles recipe a couple of pages earlier, and put chocolate chips into it. With a few modifications :-)

We were out of butter, so I had a choice of melted tub margarine or canola oil. I went with the canola oil; melted tub margarine just has this really weird smell to it. Doesn't seem right. And (as I probably said earlier) we don't really have the space for a bunch of different kinds of flour. The recipe called for cake flour; well, I used our bread flour. And I don't have a sifter, so triple-sifting the dry ingredients was out. But I did whisk through it with a fork for about 30 seconds to aerate it. That seemed to work quite well.

I'm still pretty bad at separating eggs, and I know I got some egg yolk in the whites. No doubt that's why I couldn't beat them to stiffness, as the recipe asked; or even to soft peaks. I'm still working on that. What's your preferred method of separating eggs? In the shell, in the spoon, with an egg separator, by magic?

Anyway, they were delicious. We both loved them, and I'd make them again. Even though it did use up all the mixing bowls :-D

God speed, and remember: All sorrows are less with bread.
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  1. DanJuly 9, 2011 at 1:21 PM

    Have you used your starter yet? Sourdough waffles are awesome. When I had an active starter every Saturday was pancake day.

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  2. DanJuly 9, 2011 at 1:26 PM

    Oh, to seperate eggs dump the whole mess into your (clean) hand, seperate your fingers just a little bit and let the white drip through the cracks into a waiting bowl. Most effective method I've used.

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