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One of the things I’m always looking for, is gluten-free flours that started out gluten-free before someone figured out you could charge a lot more for flour if it’s gluten-free. For example, cornstarch has been made for at least a hundred years. Cornstarch is $2.00 a lb. U.S.  These are so good that someone insisted on eating 2 out of 3 waffles.  There is no xanthan gum in this recipe, and it’s very low lactose.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups cornstarch (Check that it’s gluten-free. The original recipe for these waffles is from the Argo cornstarch website.)

2 tablespoons sugar

2 large eggs

1 tablespoon baking powder (Check that it’s gluten-free.)

1/4 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup kefir (I use Lifeway Kefir because it’s 99% lactose free–it also makes the batter much lighter than it would be if you used milk or buttermilk.)

1/4 cup mashed banana

1/2 cup melted butter (I used cultured butter because it’s very low in lactose, but it has a lot of milk solids. One of the reasons this recipe works without binders is that it uses fruit, fat and dairy solids–all three can substitute for gluten-free binders, if they’re used in large enough quantities.)

1/2 teaspoon McCormick’s Rum Extract  (Most of McCormick’s extracts and single-ingredient spices are gluten-free, and, “No, they’re still not paying me.”)

Kitchen apparatus:

Belgian waffle making iron  (I have a $28.00 Proctor Silex with non-removeable plates.)

wooden mixing spoon

teaspoon

large mixing bowl

2 cup measure

small glass bowl for melting butter

microwave for melting butter

tongs for removing the waffles from the waffle iron

plate for serving

Directions:  Unwrap a stick of butter. Put it in the microwave in the small glass bowl on, “reheat,” for about half the cycle. (Or on, “High,” for about thirty seconds. Watch this carefully–microwaves burn butter pretty rapidly.)  When the butter is melted, put the eggs, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, sugar, kefir, and baking powder in the mixing bowl. Mash a banana and add it to the batter. Mix everything up, and then finally add the rum extract and the melted butter.  Plug in your waffle iron.  Let the ingredients sit for about five minutes. When they start to bubble, the batter is ready. (The bubbling is the baking powder, sugar and kefir interacting.)  These make very fluffy waffles.

Pour the waffle batter into the heated belgian waffle maker. Close the waffle maker lid, and let the waffle bake for about 5 minutes. Then open the waffle maker, loosen the edges of the waffle with tongs, and remove the whole thing with tongs.

About $4.20 for the entire recipe, which is about half the cost of some waffle mixes.

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