Best Buttermilk Waffles

Name: Best Buttermilk Waffles
Yield: Makes 8 waffles (Each 7-inches round)
Ingredients: 2 cups (10 ounces), unbleached all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon, sugar; 3/4 teaspoon, table salt; 1/2 cup, dried buttermilk powder (see note); 1/2 teaspoon, baking soda; 1/2 cup, sour cream; 2 large, eggs; 1/4 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1/4 cup, vegetable oil; 1 1/4 cups, unflavored seltzer water

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2010, America's Test Kitchen TV

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SERVESMakes 8 waffles (Each 7-inches round)

TIME40 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Our recipe for crisp, fluffy buttermilk waffles starts with replacing some of the buttermilk with a combination of powdered buttermilk and seltzer, which inflates the batter. Adding some baking soda to the recipe gave us buttermilk waffles ...

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