Jackie Kennedy's Favorite Waffle Recipe

Look I don't know if this is true or not, but this is something I heard....

The story goes that former first lady, Jackie Kennedy made  waffles frequently for her children and husband. Though it may be difficult to reconcile the image of the immaculately pressed icon doing something so quotidian as cooking or ingesting food (a legendary diet item of Jackie’s was said to be a single sour cream- and caviar-topped baked potato a day, followed by a day or two of fruit), maybe in this moment, we may allow her to be a human being. In a 1999 interview with Food & Wine, her longtime cook Marta Sgubin, and author of Cooking for Madam: Recipes and Reminiscences from the Home of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, said, “What they will find surprising is that Madam was a public figure, sure, but she was also living a regular life. She did what everyone else did every day. She got up and ate breakfast and went to work. When the children were young, she ate every meal with them just like any mother would.” 

 So All that Not withstanding...here is the recipe the former First Lady used-

INGREDIENTS:

• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• 7/8 cup milk, or 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup and 1 tablespoon of sifted cake flour
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 stiff beaten egg whites
• 4 teaspoons baking powder

DIRECTIONS: 

1. Cream butter and sugar, add egg yolks. Beat. Add flour and milk alternately. This may be done at any time. When ready to bake fold in egg whites, and add baking powder. Mixture should be thick and fluffy.
   
2. Bake and serve with hot maple syrup and melted butter.

There it is...Just like Jackie made it! Enjoy,Eat Well my friends!