Vintage Cookery - Leggo My Eggo!

 

In the 1970s Kellogg’s Eggos hit the scene as a frozen waffle that you could quickly “cook” in your toaster.  Breakfast literally would make itself and would be so enjoyed by your family that they would literally fight over them the moment they popped up in the toaster, or so they wanted you to think.  My mom wouldn’t buy them because she thought they were stupid.  As an adult I did buy a box and found them to taste more like the box they came in than a true waffle and after toasting them they seemed rather hard and dry.  No one was fighting over them at my house.  Perhaps Mom was right.

 

Fast forward a few years and I finally bought myself a legitimate waffle iron on sale at ShopKo and expanded our breakfast eating horizons with fluffy and delicious waffles made from scratch and I did find that freezing leftovers and reheating them in the toaster worked rather well.  Now that I own a Dash Mini waffle maker (I robbed it out of the motorhome) I find myself making my own “Eggos” by batch cooking and freezing them in serving size portions.  Because I use my pancake recipe from my grandmother’s vintage cookbook with my own farm fresh eggs they taste really good too.

 

Recently I’ve been batch cooking a variety of freezer waffles in different flavors.  I started with plain and then made some whole wheat waffles using half all purpose flour and half whole wheat flour.  Both times I also added a teaspoon of vanilla.  The next time I made pumpkin spice waffles and boy were they good.  I simply added a cup of pumpkin, a teaspoon of vanilla and two teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice to the batter.  Later, some Trader Joes wild blueberries were added to my plain batter with a teaspoon of vanilla and they are amazing.  There are so many options I could come up with that I could literally fill up my freezer just with waffles.

 

I place two waffles in a sandwich bag and then stack these in a gallon Ziploc bag for added protection and to keep them altogether in the freezer.  Anytime I want a waffle I take out a package and toast them to perfection.  Topped with a little butter, some syrup, jam or apple butter or even a fried egg and I have a quick and easy, healthy and tasty brunch or lunch.  Breakfast for dinner too!