This recipe is adapted from a super recipe by Pam Anderson, found in Fine Cooking. The original recipe calls for buttermilk, which we don't always keep on hand, so my recipe adapts to use milk + acid. Also, instead of vegetable oil, we sub an equal amount of melted butter. You can certainly use vegetable oil (and it would be easier to use vegetable oil) but I much prefer the taste of butter. The first time I made this substitution, I found that if you let the warm butter and cold milk mixture sit around while you whip the egg whites, the mixture seizes. If you switch the order of the steps in the original recipe, though, it works fine. Finally, I add weight conversions since that is my preference. P.S. We made these waffles while watching a Lord of the Rings marathon, hence the name.

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