A soft cake made in a waffle-iron, and eaten with butter or molasses.
a. 1750. The regale at every such house was expected as a matter of course, to be chocolate supper and soft waffles.—Watson, ‘Historic Tales of New York,’ p. 125 (1832).
1817. Coffee, rolls, dry toast, waffles (a soft hot cake of German extraction, covered with butter), &c.—M. Birkbeck, ‘Journey in America,’ p. 76 (Phila.).
1818. If their coarse ash-pones irritate the palate as they descend, their soft wafles, with their hollow cheeks floating in honey, soothe all again. In fine, the rich Kentuckians live like lords.—Henry C. Knight (‘Arthur Singleton’), ‘Letters from the South and West,’ p. 96 (Boston, 1824).
1846. As a general thing, we believe there is pleasure in dreaming; unless, perchance, you eat hot waffles the last thing before retiring to rest, or rather to unrest, as it usually proves in that case.—Yale Lit. Mag., xi. 222 (April).
