Waffles!

I think that waffles deserve an exclamation point, don't you? Does anyone not like waffles? I just can't imagine it. My great-grandmother gave me her waffle iron and it makes the best waffles ever--crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside. Of course, it helps that my waffle recipe is so darn delicious. Just saying. And here it is, just for you, dear reader:

Waffles

3 eggs
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 ounces melted butter

Preheat waffle iron. In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs and then beat in the rest of the ingredients and keep beating until smooth. Liberally grease your waffle iron and pour on about 1/5 of the batter. It's thick, so you may need to spread it out a bit. Cook until waffle no longer steams (or however your waffle iron works).

5 full-sheet waffles (in my iron)

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Life This Week: May 1, 1939

 

Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea

In their fourth movie together, Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea star in Union Pacific, this week's "Movie of the Week." Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Union Pacific is the story of the building of the transcontinental railroad. Or more specifically, it's about an Irish "end-of-track" postmistress (Barbara Stanwyck), her gambling fiancé (Robert Preston) and the former Union army captain sent to maintain law and order along the line (Joel McCrea). Naturally, what happens is that postmistress Mollie Monahan and Captain Jeff Butler can't seem to stay away from each other. Probably because Joel McCrea has got to be one of the most adorable men ever. 

Life This Week: April 24, 1939

Dark Victory, starring Bette Davis and George Brent, is the "Movie of the Week." Naturally, Life gives away the ending (you might need a hanky for this one, folks). Thankfully, Dark Victory is an excellent example of melodrama. It seems that they're so easy to do badly!

What is particularly interesting in the Life article, though, is the breakdown of Dark Victory's budget. The entire production cost $800,000. The cost of all the film used was $15,000! Davis and Brent had to split $85,000, which comes out to about $1.3 million in 2010 dollars. I guess they were used to sharing the big bucks--Dark Victory was Bette Davis and George Brent's eighth film together.

Black and White Wednesday: Lauren's Pale Hot Cocoa

I like chocolate, but I'm far from being a chocoholic. I like a pale, rather insipid, cup of hot cocoa. I mean insipid in the best way possible--comforting but not assertive. It's unashamed nursery food. The most exotic, gourmet hot cocoa blend never charms me quite the way this pale cocoa in its transferware cup and saucer does.