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    A Brief History of Waffles

    By M.J. Stephey

    Thanks to a flooded plant in Atlanta and a broken bakery in Tennessee, Kellogg will be rationing its shipments
    of Eggo waffles well into 2010. Considering that Eggos account for nearly 70% of frozen waffles, the shortage is
    being treated as nothing less than a national calamity.

    Like many of Western civilization’s finest achievements, the long and delicious history of waffles can be traced
    to ancient Greece, where Athenians cooked flat cakes called obelios between two metal plates. The word
    waffle is related to wafer, as in the Communion wafers that were a staple of early Christian fasts. The secular–
    and considerably tastier–waffle was born in the Middle Ages; irons engraved with coats of arms, symbols of
    love and the familiar honeycomb (said to resemble interlocking crosses) were used to brand the treats.

    Waffles arrived in the U.S. with the Pilgrims, who sampled them in Holland en route to Massachusetts. Thomas
    Jefferson reportedly brought a waffle iron home from France around 1789, helping spark a fad for waffle parties
    in the States. The electric waffle iron largely did away with the cumbersome stovetop griddle, but it took a
    family of California wafflepreneurs to make the foodstuff a breakfast staple. The Dorsa brothers–Frank, Tony
    and Sam–invented instant waffle mix in the mid-1930s and later developed a carousel-like contraption that
    could churn out thousands of waffles in an hour, ready to be frozen and shipped. Kellogg bought the company
    in 1970 and introduced its catchy “Leggo My Eggo” slogan two years later.

    The great waffle shortage of 2009 has prompted hoarding and profiteering–one eBay user auctioned a
    “rationed” box of blueberry Eggos, “toaster not included”–but it helps to keep things in perspective. As Frank
    Dorsa’s son Richard told the San Jose Mercury News, if his dad were still around, he’d just “shake his head and
    say, ‘This is silly.'”
    Adapted from https://time.com/3957420/waffles/

    1. Match the words and expressions in the text to the definitions.

    a) Calamity ( ) instantly appealing and memorable.


    b) To spark a fad ( ) to produce large amounts of something quickly.
    c) To do away with ( ) an event causing great and sudden damage or distress.
    d) To churn something out ( ) persistent difficulty discarding possessions.
    e) Catchy ( ) to remove or put an end to something.
    f) Hoarding ( ) to start a sudden trend.

    2. Complete the sentences with words related to food and cooking.

    1. When you cook something for too long and it becomes black, you ____________ it.
    2. When we use the hot air from boiling water to cook something, we ____________ it.
    3. To cook chicken in an oven we usually ____________ it.
    4. To make bread and cakes we ____________ them.
    5. When we cook something in lots of hot fat or oil we ____________ it.
    6. To make water very hot you have to ____________ it.
    7. To make an omelette you have to ____________ the eggs.

    Read the Waffle Recipe and decide how you and your friends will divide the tasks.

    Ingredients
    - 2 cups of flour
    - 2 teaspoons of baking powder
    - 2 tablespoons of corn starch
    - 4 tablespoons of melted unsalted butter
    - 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
    - 2 tablespoons of sugar
    - Half a teaspoon of salt
    - 3 eggs
    - 1 1/2 cups of milk

    Instructions
    1. Sift the flour, sugar, corn starch, baking powder and salt into a bowl.
    2. In a different bowl, whisk the eggs, butter, milk and vanilla extract.
    3. Add the dry ingredients in the wet mixture and mix them together.
    4. Pre heat your waffle maker. Carefully fill the waffle maker with the batter until it’s covered.
    Wait for your waffle to get golden brown and enjoy!

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