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tropic gingerbread waffles

Tropic Gingerbread Waffles

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup sifted flour

  • 1 tsp. ginger

  • ¼ tsp. cinnamon

  • ½ tsp. each, salt and soda

  • 1 tsp. baking powder

  • 2 eggs

  • 3 tbsps. sugar

  • ⅓ cup dark molasses

  • ⅔ cup sour cream

  • 1 No. 2½ can Del Monte Sliced Pineapple

Instructions:
Sift dry ingredients except sugar. Beat eggs; add sugar gradually, continuing to beat. Add molasses and sour cream; mix into dry ingredients until flour is just moistened.

Bake in hot waffle iron (placing waffles in a slow oven, without stacking, to keep crisp).

Serve with heated pineapple slices and whipped cream (adding crushed peanut brittle, if desired).

Serves: 6–8

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Credits:

Tropic gingerbread waffles - Del Monte advertisement - the recipe's style and ingredients suggest it originates from the 1950s or early 1960s.

Citrus sipper - vintage by the bite. Recipe inspired by Sunkists Orangeade recipe

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