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What’s Cooking Wednesday: National Waffle Day
Want a waffle with that earthshake? All Virginia earthquake jokes aside, today is a momentous day indeed. On this day in 1869, Dutch American Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York, received a U.S. patent for the first waffle iron. Described as simply a “device to bake waffles,” the waffle iron was heated over a coal [...]
Posted by Victoria on August 24, 2011, under - Presidents, Myth or History, Recipes, What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: Cornelius Swarthout, John F. Kennedy, National Waffle Day, patents, waffle iron, waffles
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