Waffles - Plain or Bacon

Waffles for Two

1 cup flour
1 tablespoon sugar*
1 ½  teaspoons baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt*
1 cup s milk
2 ½ tablespoons oil
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla*

Mix together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl.

In a separate bowl or glass measuring cup, stir milk, egg, oil, and vanilla together.

Add to dry ingredients, mix until smooth.

Let batter rest for 5 minutes.  Use a scant ½ cup per waffle.

Makes 3-4 waffles.

NOTES: 

* These are optional ingredients.  The sugar gives the outside a little bit more browning, and the salt and vanilla are just to enhance the flavor.   If you use a lot of butter and syrup you might not notice their absence.

INSTRUCTIONS WITH PHOTOS:

Stir the dry ingredients together.   I like to use a whisk, it breaks up any lumps and stirs it up nice and evenly.

Now, here's a trick I learned from my mom...

Measure the milk into a glass measuring cup.
Like the  Pyrex Prepware Measuring Cup

Add the egg, oil, vanilla (or any other liquid you're mixing in) and stir it up with a fork. 

 

There... you just saved yourself from washing another mixing bowl. 

Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture, and beat until smooth.   A rotary egg beater works great here, and I'd use one if I knew where mine was... 

 

Let the batter rest for five (5) minutes.

Use about ½ cup per waffle.  A scant half cup.  Pour it out the cup but don't scrape the cup...

Better yet, follow the recommendations for your waffle maker.  There's no shame in reading the instructions, after all, it's not a computer...

OPTION:

Sprinkle some bacon bits on top before closing the lid.  Those are Bacon Crumbles from Costco, highly recommended...

The syrup can hardly wait...

This assumes non-fat milk, no bacon, and a total of four waffles made from the recipe.   

It also assumes you only ate one waffle!
Nutrition information from www.caloriecount.com