recipes

Our family has a recipe for these waffles. I grew up on them, and my mother's family made them all the time. They weren't regular waffles. They were sweeter. Kind of like a dessert waffle. We called them 'Galettes'.

Now if you query the internet for Galettes, you get all kinds of recipes, but none of them are close to being what we had as kids. On the internet, Galettes are described as a thin pie or tart. What we had was more like a Belgium Waffle than a Galette. So, not being able to find a suitable recipe on the internet, I decided to ask Grandma for her recipe. This is what she pulled out:

The recipe starts off with 1lb of butter. 1 pound!?!?

"Cripes Grandma! How many Gallettes does this recipe make?" I asked.

"Oh, a few", she says.

The next line: 1/2 pound shortening.

With one pound of butter? Ok... I think I might have to cut this recipe in half!

The next ingredients: 1 pound of white sugar and 1/2 pound of brown sugar. Again with the pounds! How am I supposed to measure that? Just how many cups are in a pound anyways?

Then there was 1 dozen eggs.

"Grandma, I don't think this is right", I say.

"Oh, it's right. It made enough to feed us all on the farm", she replies.

"How many of you were there on the farm? Like 40 people?"

She laughs, and says, "No, there were... what... 8 of us kids..."

I continued to read the recipe: Vanilla. Salt. That was it. No measurement of any kind. Just the words "Vanilla" and then "Salt". huh??

By this time, we were laughing and joking around about the whole thing. Then I read the last line: Mix as for cakes, and drop by tablespoon onto a hot greased waffle iron.

Let's see. You make the whole recipe, all those pounds of sugar, pounds of flour, a dozen eggs and the like, and then you have to use a TABLESPOON to fill the waffle iron... Cripes! You would be making Galettes until the cows come home!

I am still laughing over all this. And I'm still searching Grandma's recipes for a more suitable version of her 'Galettes' recipe.