Buttermilk Waffles
Awaiting Trial Recipe version 1 · Filed by the Court (seed pool) · Adapted from 'Buttermilk Waffles' — Farmers' Bulletin 565, 'Corn Meal as a Food and Ways of Using It,' USDA, issued Jan. 22, 1914, revised Sept. 1917 (public domain, U.S. federal work). Measures and oven temperatures modernized. Conversion: the original's 2 cups wheat flour (250 g) are swapped straight for a gum-containing 1:1 blend at the same weight (USDA basis 125 g/cup); the original's four eggs are kept as written, and its own 'improved by standing' note is formalized as a 10- to 30-minute rest. Distinct from Corn Meal Waffles (Converted) above — soda/buttermilk leavening, equal parts meal and flour, twice the eggs.
A big, tangy batch: cornmeal cooked into a mush with butter, eggs beaten separately until very light, flour and soda, and buttermilk stirred in at the end. The bulletin notes the mixture is improved by standing a short time — the original already knew about the rest.
Why this complexity: Cornmeal mush is cooked and cooled first; Eggs are beaten separately until very light; Large batch (serves 10 in the original).
Ingredients
- 250 g gluten-free 1:1 baking blend (with gum) (about 2 cups), for the original 2 cups wheat flour (250 g, USDA basis 125 g/cup)
- 2 cups cornmeal
- 3 cups water
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 4 large eggs, separated
- 1 cup sweet milk
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- Buttermilk or sour milk, enough to make a thin batter (about 1 1/2 cups)
Method
- Cook the cornmeal, water, salt, and butter together in a double boiler for 10 minutes. Let the mush cool.
- Beat the egg yolks and whites separately until very light, and stir them into the cooled mush.
- Sift the blend and soda together. Add to the corn mixture alternately with the sweet milk.
- Stir in buttermilk last, enough to make a thin batter.
- Rest the batter 10 to 30 minutes (thin batters rest longer, per the converter rules; the original itself says the mixture is improved by standing).
- Try in a hot, lightly greased waffle iron until crisp and browned. Serve at once.
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