Wafer

A wafer [ ː tə ɔpla ] ( in Austria usually with emphasis on the "O") is a thin pastry that is used for human consumption and as a sealing material. It provides wafers from a liquid mass forth that contains only water, flour and starch, as she bakes waffles between hot iron and cut or punch them in round or rectangular pieces. The German Food Code expects Oblates to the dry baked goods, and thus to the fine baked goods, even though they do not contain the required work for the minimum of 10 % fat and / or sugar.

Description

By eliminating Teigsäuerung, loosening agent, protein and sugar and low gluten formation Oblates do not go on, but remain flat, have a pappige but brittle texture and a sour taste. They are baked with low fat as a release agent in so-called wafers iron, which consist of two cooking surfaces that are heated on the fire either or can be heated. Some wafers have a flat, smooth surface, others obtained by engraving the back surfaces patterns, lettering or pictorial, often religious motives. Oblates remain in baking usually very light or even completely white but can be dyed.

Wafers are usually made ​​from wheat flour, but they are also gluten- free varieties of whole grain or corn flour or corn starch known.

Variants

Edible Oblates

Edible Oblates serve either as a baking ingredient, or can be eaten directly:

Backoblaten

Communion wafers

Esspapier

Carlsbad Wafers

Sealing wafers

Sealing wafers serve notaries in the sealing of documents to sticking a signet leaf on the paper. They are moistened first, then glue them on and presses while still wet an embossed stamp in the wafer into it. Dried such a seal is very safe - the Oblate would break immediately upon manipulation. Sealing wafers were formerly widespread and available in different colors; thereby partly toxic colors have been used to some extent also non-toxic, because the wafers were moistened with the tongue or even eaten. Today dealers offer notary and legal needs at least on the German market still white sealing wafers of about 4 cm diameter at.