Jon W
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I recently purchased a cast iron waffle maker similar to this http://cgi.ebay.com/GRISWOLD-No-8-Cast-Iron-WAFFLE-IRON-w-tall-Base_W0QQitemZ190237337620QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item190237337620&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318 Does anyone have recipes cook times or amount of coals to use. I thought this would be something different camping
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kihutson
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Here's a quick link. Looks interesting - - do you place it directly in the fire?
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Those types of irons were made to sit on a cast iron stove. What you did was heat it up then put an amount of batter in. Cook on one side for a time. Then turn it over and cook for a short time on the other side. Makes real crispy waffles.
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Jon,
Go to this site: RVing Outpost
Leave a message under Cast Iron & Dutch Oven Cooking. Specifically, ask for a reply from Mrs. Mik., Julie will be able to answer an questons you have about cooking with cast iron. Tell her Firecapt sent you!
If the iron has a deep base than it can be used over the coals or a stove, the shallow base models are for the stove unless you have it on top of a grill or campfire grate.
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Jon W
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2 campers wrote:Those types of irons were made to sit on a cast iron stove. What you did was heat it up then put an amount of batter in. Cook on one side for a time. Then turn it over and cook for a short time on the other side. Makes real crispy waffles.
I have seen pictures of people using them on dutch oven tables. From what I can figure out the low base was for on top of a stove and the high base was for coal's. I will let you know how it works when I get it figured out.
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Jon W
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Went out this weekend for the first time since restoring the waffle iron. After some experimenting found that I needed to fill the base with a good bed of coals (on the dutch oven table) and cook for about 7 or 8 minnuets. It was a big hit. Need to do some more tweaking and find the perfect recipe and we will have waffles all the time. Also give me your best waffle recipe.
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Jon W wrote: ...Also give me your best waffle recipe.
OK. My Best waffle Recipe- adapted (all right, so it's stolen) from... I forget. Clean up is more involved than many prefer.
2 Cups Sifted* Flour
1 Tbl Sugar
3 tsp baking powder
½ tsp (rounded ½ tsp or scant tsp) Salt
3 egg yolks-well beaten
2 Cups heavy cream
½ Cup melted butter
3 egg whites stiffly beaten
Sift dry ingredients together. Combine beaten egg yolks, cream and butter. Blend throughly. Fold beaten egg whites into batter. Cook as directed with your wafflemaker
Recipe makes about 10 in my 7 1/2- 8” waffle round maker. The above is the main course for supper. Below is the "vegetable".
Strawberry Syrup
1 pound fresh strawberries, cleaned and coarsely chopped, or thawed frozen unsweetened strawberries (about 3 cups)
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons fresh orange juice
1/2 teaspoon finely grated orange zest (or lemon zest)
In a medium saucepan- not nonstick, combine all the ingredients and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and simmer until the strawberries are soft and the syrup is thickened and reduced by one-third to one-half in volume, 15 to 18 minutes. Since you've got the mixer out for the egg whites give it a quick beat. That the reason for not using a fragile nonstick pan. Its fairly "gooshy" anyway so an immersion blender would work just fine in a Teflon pan if thats what you've got.
Remove from the heat and let cool to room temperature before serving. Or just put the bowl in some ice water until its cool enough to eat- heck, its going on hot waffles anyway... (If thinner syrup is desired, strain the hot syrup through a fine mesh strainer into a clean container and let cool.)
Yield: 2 1/2 cups. Blueberries work well too.
Bob
*If anyone really believes I sifted the flour first, please contact me about an investment opportunity in a bridge located in Brooklyn.
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