Recipe: Pound Cake Waffles (1920's)

POUND CAKE WAFFLES

3/4 cup (12 Tbsp or 1 1/2 cubes) butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
4 eggs, separated, yolks beaten, whites stiffly beaten
1/3 cup milk
1 tsp lemon or vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups bread flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

Cream butter and sugar thoroughly together. Mix in the beaten egg yolks, milk and flavoring.

Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt. Mix the flour mixture into the wet ingredients until moistened. Finally, lightly fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites.

Cook in waffle iron as ordinary waffles.

Source: Milwaukee Journal newspaper, Jan 24, 1928