Waffle, French Bread (1674)

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   OED an Merriam-Webster have 1744 for "waffle."
   OED has 1686 for "French bread."  Merriam-Webster states "15th century."
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   I was looking under the subject of "cookery, French."

THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH COOK:
(etc.--ed.)
London: printed for Simon Miller
1674

Pg. 345:
      _A Waffel._
   Boil three pints of Cream with four or five whole Cloves, then have the yolks of half a dozen Eggs dissolved in Cream, the Cream being well boiled, so that it taste of the Spices, put in your Eggs, and stir them well together; then have some Muskadine or Tent, and being warm'd, pour it into a Dish with Sugar, wherein there are fine Sippets of French-bread, then pour on your Cream upon that, then cast on Ginger, Cinamon and Sugar, and stick it with blanched Almonds.