To make Wafers is a traditional Stuart recipe for a classic sweet snack made from a fried flour, egg, rose water, sugar and cream pancake batter. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Stuart version of: To make Wafers.
Take a quart of Flower heaped and put to it the yolks of four Eggs, and two or three spoonfuls of Roſewater, mingle this well together, then make it like Batter with Cream and a little Sugar, and bake it on Irons very thin poured on.
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Ingredients:
550g plain flour
4 egg yolks
2 tbsp rose water
4 tbsp sugar
750ml cream
Method:
Combine the flour and sugar in a bowl. Beat together the egg yolks and rose water then stir into the flour mix. Now beat in the cream until you have a thin batter.
Heat a non-stick pan over high heat. When hot, add a little butter. Now ad a ladleful of the batter and spread out over the pan. Fry on one side until golden brown then flip over and fry on the other side. Transfer to the oven to keep warm as you cook the remaining batter.
