Submitted by: Betty S.
Recipe Source Country: Belgium
Cooking/Prep time: more than 2 hours
Ingredients
- 500 g of plain flour
- 25 g of yeast (150 ml of lukewarm water + a little crystal sugar)
- 3 eggs
- 250 g of softened butter
- 350 g of sugar (1/2 semolina, 1/2 pearl sugar)
Directions
- Crumble the yeast into a little water with sugar.
- Mix the flour, butter (not melted), eggs, and yeast and let it rest for +/-2 hours under a towel (it should double in volume in this time).
- Add the sugar and mix again.
- Place the batter in a hot and buttered waffle iron.
It’s a special waffle recipe from the heartland, every family has their own, but this one, over 100 years old, is by far my favorite.