Q 01/05

The English word 'waffle' comes directly from which language?

A) German

B) Welsh

C) Dutch

D) Old Norse

Answer · why

C) Dutch

Behind it sits the Frankish word for honeycomb, which is exactly what the iron leaves behind.

Q 02/05

The Frankish root of the word means what?

A) Honeycomb

B) Sweet cake

C) Hot stone

D) Flat bread

Answer · why

A) Honeycomb

The first English appearance of the word comes in an 18th-century recipe that begins 'Take flower, cream'.

Q 03/05

In which year does the word first appear in English?

A) 1610

B) 1866

C) 1725

D) 1804

Answer · why

C) 1725

By then the thing itself had been cooked in Europe for four centuries.

Q 04/05

What did the ancient Greeks cook between hot metal plates?

A) Fish parcels

B) Flat cakes

C) Honey buns

D) Barley loaves

Answer · why

B) Flat cakes

Those plates became the long-handled irons of medieval Europe, held over an open fire.

Q 05/05

What was the medieval ancestor of the waffle called?

A) The oublie

B) The talmouse

C) The fouace

D) The gaufrette

Answer · why

A) The oublie

In its earliest form it was flour and water only, exactly like a communion wafer.