Buttered Wafers
Ingredients
Directions
The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.
Prepare
Preheat your oven to 400°F (200°C).
Make and bake
Butter the soda crackers on one side.
Arrange the buttered crackers in a single layer on a baking sheet.
Bake in the hot oven until browned quickly.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Soda crackers
- Form the crisp, flat base that toasts to a crunchy texture in the oven.
- Butter
- Adds fat and richness, helping the crackers brown and giving them savoury flavour.
The step that matters
Bake in the hot oven until browned quickly. Butter-coated crackers can go from golden to dark within moments. Watching closely keeps the milk solids and sugars in the crackers from scorching, which would make them bitter.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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