Waffles
This is the recipe from Mom's recipe box but once she discovered Krusteaz she used Krusteaz.
2 cups flour
1 cup sweet milk
1 cup thick sour cream
2 eggs, whites to snow (editor: I have no idea what "white to snow" means. A reader suggested: since they're waffles, the "whites to snow" simply means to beat to stiff peaks....but in a beautiful phrase:)
1 t. baking powder
3 t. sugar
1/2 t. saltWhite sauce
White sauce is also called Vanilla Sauce and is included in the Melting Pot of Mennonite Cookery twice. I have a theory that Vanilla Sauce/White Sauce was created because real syrup wasn't readily available. Mom's son-in-law from upstate New York eschewed White Sauce in favor of real syrup. I thought White Sauce was what made this meal worth eating.
1 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
2 T. cornstarch
2 T. butter
1 T. vanilla or lemon
Boil sugar, constarch and water and boil 5 minutes. Remove from fire, add 1/2 stick butter and vanilla or lemon flavoring.
Note: I realize the discrepancy between 2 T. butter in the listed ingredients and 1/2 stick butter in the directions. Use your taste buds!
Note: this White Sauce recipe is enough for the Waffle recipe above. I know: I doubled the White Sauce and had twice as much as needed.
Local Sausage
The latest preferred sausage was from Dale's in Hillsboro. Yoder sausage (available at the Bread Basket in Newton) was also in contention. It's worth traveling to Kansas with an ice chest for this sausage.
The sausage is usually cooked in a skillet or crock pot. It comes in big spirals and can be cut into serving size pieces either before or after cooking.
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Hi Bobbie, We loved Aunt Dot's white sauce. We remember when we had it while visiting her at her house in Newton. Erika made some yesterday and used vegan butter. It was really good. Ted also said that Aunt Dot told him her secret to her good potato salad, she riced her potatoes and used lots of eggs with the other ingredients. We've got to get a ricer.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting some of Aunt Dot's recipes. We will be using them.
Jerry says:
ReplyDeleteI eschew Krusteaz in favor of my own assemblage of beer waffles!
To wit, this morning I made waffles for Boxing Day. They include one sifter of flour, 3 eggs (separated), 1 teaspoon baking soda, 2 teaspoons baking powder, 1 T. sugar, 1/2 t. salt, 2 dashes of cardomon (i.e. 1/4 t.), quarter bottle of Warsteiner, 3/4 c. soured milk (that is gently aged milk) with some sour cream added.
Start with egg yolks and beat in milk mixture, then beat in the sugar. Sift together flour with baking powder, soda, salt. Incorporate flour mixture with egg & milk & sugar mixture, using a large wooden spoon. Add cardomon. "Fold" in the beer. Beat the eggs whites to stiff peaks and fold them into the mix.
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