Gordon's Waffles

It is on my dad’s side that I remember my upbringing, and how different it was from my friends’. Although it didn’t make up a significant portion of my life, there were a few years when my parents sent me and my brother to Quaker camp with the New York Friends Yearly Meeting in Silver Bay, NY. We mostly sang songs on the guitar from “Rise Up Singing,” and played games, but I felt like I was, in some small regard, raised Quaker. My mother worked hard to teach me and my siblings conscientious objection to violence, and active pacifism. We were raised to be tolerant of other people and their abilities, beliefs, and educations, and we quickly learned to love tie dye. It was a short period of time, but its influence remains.

If it wasn’t for my father’s half of the family, Silver Bay, and all of the beauty of Lake George, would never have been known to us, and in a similar vein, I would never have had the small influence of the Quakers.

Anyway, my mom and dad got a “perfect waffle iron” for their wedding, and, 25 years later, it still makes perfect waffles.

Ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup whole wheat flour

• 1⁄2 cup ground flax meal

• 1 tsp baking powder

• 1⁄4 tsp salt

• 2 eggs, separated

• 1 1⁄4 cup + 2 tbsp milk

• 1⁄2 cup oil

• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1. Mix together dry ingredients in a large bowl. Set aside.

2. Separate egg whites and yolks. Beat whites until fluffy.

3. In another bowl, mix yolks, oil, vanilla, and 1⁄2 cup milk until well combined. Stir in remaining milk.

4. Add wet mix to dry ingredients. Stir gently.

5. Fold in egg whites, let batter sit 5 minutes.

6. Bake in a preheated waffle iron according to directions.

7. Don’t add in items to the waffles, as they will make it much harder to get the waffle out of the waffle iron.