51. BACON-CORNMEAL WAFFLES

makes six waffles

2 eggs
1 3/4 cups milk
1 cup cake flour or 7/8 cup all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons double-acting baking powder
1 tablespoon salt
1 cup yellow stone-ground cornmeal
1/4 cup melted bacon fat or other shortening
6-12 very thin slices bacon

Beat eggs slightly. Add the milk. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt. Add the cornmeal. Combine these ingredients with the eggs and milk in a few quick strokes. Add the melted bacon fat. Cut the slices of bacon into halves or quarters. Place pieces of bacon on each waffle iron section after pouring the batter.


from: Joy of Cooking by Irma Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker, New York: Plume, 1997, p. 242.