Hello readers! Today’s recipe has been requested by Julie.
We used to have waffles and white sauce when I was kid, and I never liked the white sauce. Well, it’s not that I didn’t like white sauce, I just preferred syrup because to me it seemed more ‘modern and cool’. I now understand and appreciate that my foster mother made homemade Mennonite waffles and white sauce instead of just giving us eggo’s and syrup. But when I was younger, I felt the same way about homemade soup, sauces, jams, etc. That those things were inferior because they were homemade, and I longed for some of the boxed processed foods that I saw some of the other kids in school eating. There was even a time when my foster mom tried to make homemade ketchup. It was not good. She also tried to make homemade yogurt, but didn’t sweeten it, and it was also not good. (Maybe I’ll try to recreate that in a future blog?)
Anyway, I got sidetracked. Back to the white sauce. It wasn’t until I moved in with my now wife that I started to eat it again. She makes it a few times a year for our kids, who love it, and to them it’s a special meal. But there is always a debate about what kind of meat to eat alongside the waffles and white sauce. She says bacon, I say breakfast sausage. And we always end up making both. But that all changed about 5 years ago when my wife and I went out for dinner at the Station Arts Tea Room in Rosthern, Sk. My wife ordered waffles and white sauce, and was served farmer sausage alongside it. Why hadn’t I ever thought to make farmer sausage with waffles and white sauce?! That’s my favorite meat and I make it with everything else.
Now that I know how delicious waffles and white sauce are with farmer sausage, even I request that we make this meal from time to time. Please let me know what your favorite thing to eat with waffles and white sauce is, and if you have had waffles and white sauce with farmer sausage at a restaurant before. Also, we have tried various waffles recipes, but haven’t found ‘the one’. So if you have a waffle recipe that you wouldn’t mind sharing with me, I would love to see it and try it out!
Now to make the white sauce.
First, gather your ingredients. You’ll need 6 cups of milk, 1 cup of white sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla and 8 tablespoons of corn starch.
You’ll also need a saucepan and a whisk.
Put the sugar, corn starch, vanilla and milk in the saucepan, and stir with a whisk over medium heat until the mixture gets thick like gravy.
Once your white sauce is thick, take it off of the heat and cover with a lid. (if you don’t cover it, a ‘skin’ will develop on top of the sauce. But if that happens, just use your whisk to mix it all together again.)
Now you can make your favorite waffle recipe, and pour the sauce over the waffles. Enjoy!
White Sauce (for waffles)
A sweet, creamy, custard like sauce to put on top of waffles.
Ingredients
- 6 Cups Milk
- 1 Cup Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 8 Tbsp Corn Starch
Instructions
- Dump all ingredients into a pot.
- Cook on medium heat, stirring constantly, until the sauce becomes thick.
- Remove from heat and let cool down a bit before serving.
I grew up adding a dollop of the waffle batter to the sauce. For 6 cups of milk I would add 2. I’ve had ‘plain white sauce, and it is good, but like you can attest there’s something about the way your childhood tastes that makes it. I’ve also struggled to find The waffle recipe…
That sounds very familiar, and now that you’ve mentioned that, I think I recall my foster mother doing something like that! We have used many different waffle recipes over the years, but haven’t been able to find ‘the one’.
My mom, grand and great grand made waffle gravy like this. So delicious!
I haven’t had this in years. This brought back delicious memories. We had the waffles and sauce with the farmer sausage made by my Grampa
We put cinnamon in ours. We also used flour instead of cornstarch. Little more sugar too. We call it waffle sauce. It’s a family tradition. So yummy!
My Mom always made this although many Mennos I knew did not have this with waffles. My non-Menno wife liked it too and we have raised our 3 kids, last one born 1995, to have waffles, white sauce and ham for Christmas brunch since they were little.
My Mom cooked it on the stove but my wife uses the microwave. Either way it is, really, the only way to eat waffles. Because I’m lazy I buy the pancake / waffle mix they sell at Costco. It is easy and very delicious.
Thank-you again Lance.
I love white sauce on waffles so much better than syrup. My Mennonite grandma always made it that way.
I stumbled across your website while searching for Paska Icing. I have been so blessed by reading your recipes and stories! Here’s my go to recipe for waffles.
1 cup whole wheat flour
3 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. sugar
2 eggs, separated
1 1/4 cups milk (or buttermilk with 1/2 tsp. baking soda)
1/4 cup oil
Beat egg whites until stiff. Stir together dry ingredients. Then add egg yolks and milk and stir together. Add oil.
Fold in beaten egg whites and bake. They are crispy and light!
Enjoy!