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Janet B. Janet B. is offline
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Default bakery sticks to cast iron?


"peter" > wrote in message
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> I'm trying to make an ethic snack that somewhat resemble waffle but is
> eaten without jam or fruit.
> The ingredient for the batter are flour, sugar, baking powder, milk, eggs,
> corn starch, water, oil.
>
> I also have a corresponding cast which is just two pieces of cast iron
> with concave holes in them. It was bought from another country.
>
> After I pour the batter into this cast and heated it up, the cooked batter
> sticks to the cast like crazy. I already brushed some oil in the cast.
> What else can I do to make cast iron less sticky? They don't make
> non-stick version.
>
>

heat the pan in the oven first, remove, rub the hot pan with shortening and
immediately add your batter and bake. It works for me with a fiddly cast
iron pan.
Janet