Some History

Waffle irons have been found as old as 1100 years! These waffle irons had images on them, which often showed Christian events such as Jesus' Crucifixion. The waffles consisted only of flower and water. In the 11th century, travel allowed new ingredients to be brought and added to the waffle recipe. Very rapidly the 'delicious and nutritious' food spread through northwestern Europe. In 1270 a guild dedicated to waffle makers was built. The word waffle comes from 'wafele', a Dutch word first seen near the end of the 13th century.

The first detailed recipe for waffles was found in Paris and is dated to come from the 14th century. It goes like this: beat some eggs in a bowl, season with salt and add wine. Toss in some flour, and mix. Then fill, little by little, two irons at a time with as much of the paste as a slice of cheese is large. Then close the iron and cook both sides. If the dough does not detach easily from the iron, coat it first with a piece of cloth that has been soaked in oil or grease. As you can see, this recipe is clearly an earlier version of what we have today.

In the 15th century rectangular waffle irons started to appear. In the 16th century the first paintings of waffles have been made. They include works from famous artists such as Pieter Bruegel and Joachim de Beukelaer. The waffles in these paintings have a 12x7 grid of neat squares, very identical to the modern Brussels waffle. The second waffle recipe comes from the Netherlands in early the 16th century. It states: 'Take grated white bread. Take with that the yolk of an egg and a spoonful of pot sugar or powdered sugar. Take with that half water and half wine, and ginger and cinnamon.' Waffles like this probably had the same delicious taste as the ones that we have today, since they were sweetened with sugar.

The royals also enjoyed waffles. Francois I, king of France from 1494-1547 stated that he loved them a lot. He even spent valuable silver on making waffle irons. Charles the IX, his successor, even made a law about waffles. He decided that waffle makers should be located at least 4 yards away from eachother.

STOP READING THIS NOW!!!!

This history is what some people are trying to make you believe, because they don't know the real way waffles were made!!! But it is not true!!! I will explain what waffles are actually.

To look at waffles you have to zoom out a lot, but to explain, I'll start small. Here is a picture of our earth. As we know the earth is in our Solar System, which is located in the milky way. The milky way is in our galaxy. But what is outside of our galaxy? I have the answer!!! It is on giant waffle. This waffle is a different kind then we know, it is black. That's why when you go into space, and at night, everything is black. There are many of these waffles, one for every colour, in other words there are an endless lot of them because their are so many colours. But then why are we in the one with the darkest colour? And why do with have the perfect conditions for life? Because the upper god, the spirit of waffles, knew we were going to be the only creature ever able to discover waffles.

But we must be careful!!! The spirit of waffles is not happy that we are not putting our discovery of the holy food to good use, and he will eat our waffle (the gigantic one) if we don't start worthshipping waffles.

If you are wondering how I know all of this, it was told to me in a message from the waffle spirit in the waffle I had yersterday.