Norwegian Waffles

I'd told Chris that I had this big plan to make a huge batch of waffles, and today we did it! Making them was pretty fun. Chris whipped up the five eggs, and by the time we added the liter of milk products to the concoction, it really looked like a huge amount of stuff! So I found a waffle iron, and then ran around and found some people to help us eat them. Javiez, Daniel Wallace, Martin/201, Chris, and I sat down to this huge pile of waffles and had a great breakfast. The powdered-sugar-and-lemon-juice style proved quite popular. I think it turned out to be a really nice little get-together.

Here's the recipe as my mom sent it to me:

Ingredients

• 5 eggs
• ¾ cup (1.8 dl) granulated sugar
• ½ cup (1.2 dl) melted butter
• 1 tsp (5 ml) ground cardamom
• 1 tsp (5 ml) baking soda
• 1 quart (10 dl) buttermilk
• 3 cups (7 dl) sifted flour

In place of buttermilk we used a mixture of ½ milk and ½ fil, which is a sour yogurt-like product available here. For flour we used rågmjöl, which is... flour. And baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO₃.

Procedure

1. Beat eggs and sugar until thick and creamy.
2. Mix in the rest of the ingredients.
3. Preheat waffle iron. Spray with spray oil, lightly, or brush with oil. Alternatively, put a dribble of oil in waffle iron and close so that oil spreads around.
4. Make waffles!

The ``Norwegian Style'' is to eat them cold with whipped cream and jam. We ate them the ``Fricke style'' with powdered sugar and lemon juice, which I highly recommend! And also orange marmalade.