To Make Duch Goafers [Gofers]

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Title: To Make Duch Goafers [Gofers]
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for a baked good that may be referring to "gofers" (possibly from the French "gauffre," or "wafer/waffle"). This may be referring to a kind of waffle, though the recipe differs from other examples and does not mention any special cooking tools or irons. (See the Manuscripts Cookbook Survey, "Did the English, too, Bring Dutch Waffles to America?," https://www.manuscriptcookbookssurvey.org/did-the-english-too-bring-dutch-waffles-to-america/"
Transcript: Take a pinte & half of Milk & a pd of floor [illegible] half a pd of buter & put thm in when the Milk is Cold put in 2 Spounfull of Barm - if you mix 4 or 5 pd of it you must take a good Glass full of watter & proportion Watter with the Mixture & stir thm well to geather & let thm stand all the day & Night folowing thn bake thm Next day
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Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent; Grimm, Stephanie
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.

Item sets: Fairfax Cookbook; Food; uncategorized cookbook