To Make Duch Goafers [Gofers]

Title: To Make Duch Goafers [Gofers]
Date: 1694/1795
Description: A recipe for a baked good that may be referring to "gofers," a kind of baked good usually baked on an iron (possibly from the French "gaufre," or "wafer/waffle").
Transcript: Take a pinte & half of Milk & a pd of floor [illegible] half a pd of buter & put thm in when the Milk is Cold put in 2 Spounfull of Barm - if you mix 4 or 5 pd of it you must take a good Glass full of watter & proportion Watter with the Mixture & stir thm well to geather & let thm stand all the day & Night folowing thn bake thm Next day
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Contributor: Caylor, Karmen; Le, Vincent
Source: Elizabeth Fairfax cookbook, Collection #C0202, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Publisher: George Mason University Libraries
Rights: Public domain. There are no known restrictions.