On remarque, sur ce modèle de gaufrier des motifs différents sur la plaquette de gauche, ornée de cœurs en vis-à-vis, et sur celle de droite, ornée de cœurs qui semblent cette fois-ci comme ouverts. Les deux plaquettes bénéficient tout autour de ces cœurs, de décors de volutes, de petites croix et de pointillés.
“The Fight Between Carnival and Lent”, painted by Brueghel the Elder, 1559 – Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
“The Fight Between Carnival and Lent”, painted by Brueghel the Elder, 1559 – Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria.
Detail of the painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent”. We see a woman holding the waffle iron over the flame.
Detail of the painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, “The Fight Between Carnival and Lent”. We see a woman holding the waffle iron over the flame.
With this type of waffle maker fashioned by a blacksmith from Périgord in the 18th century, you could cook not just waffles but deliciously crunchy wafers.

With this type of waffle iron shaped by a blacksmith from Périgord in the 18th century, you could cook not waffles but deliciously crunchy wafers, whose dough was made of wheat flour mixed with milk, butter and sugar

It was necessary to have the right knack for, once the ladle of dough poured on the plate below, immediately close the waffle iron by blocking the latch at the end of the handles to ensure cooking and the printing of the patterns provided for this effect.

It was necessary to have the right dexterity to, once the ladle of dough poured on the plate below, press it immediately by closing the waffle iron and blocking the latch at the end of the handles and to ensure cooking and to ensure the printing of sought-after patterns.

On remarque, sur ce modèle de gaufrier des motifs différents sur la plaquette de gauche, ornée de cœurs en vis-à-vis, et sur celle de droite, ornée de cœurs qui semblent cette fois-ci comme ouverts. Les deux plaquettes bénéficient tout autour de ces cœurs, de décors de volutes, de petites croix et de pointillés.

We notice, on this model in particular, different patterns on the palette on the left, decorated with hearts facing each other, and on the one on the right, decorated with hearts which this time seem to be open.

The two plates benefiting all around these hearts, decorations of scrolls, small crosses and dotted lines.

These refined ornaments testify to the value of this object, probably offered on the occasion of a marriage between wealthy peasant families.

This waffle maker was part of the bride’s trousseau and enchanted young and old alike with playful evenings by the fire, perfumed with the sweet scent of pretty, barely golden wafers.

These refined ornaments testify to the value of this object, probably offered on the occasion of a marriage between wealthy peasant families.
This waffle maker was part of the bride's trousseau and enchanted young and old alike with playful evenings by the fire, perfumed with the sweet scent of pretty, barely golden wafers.

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    Tableau de Pieter Brueghel l’Ancien, Le Combat de Carnaval et Carême, 1559. Huile sur bois actuellement au Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienne, Autriche.

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