Melanie's Waffles

• 2 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1 Tbs sugar
• 4 Tbs butter, softened
• 4 Tbs shortening
• 1 cup half-and-half
• 1 cup milk
• ½ cup buttermilk
• ½ tsp vanilla

Combine flour, salt and baking soda in a medium bowl and stir to combine.

Lightly beat the egg in another medium bowl and combine with sugar, butter and shortening, mixing well until smooth.

Add the half & half, milk, buttermilk and vanilla. Mix well.

Add the dry flour mixture to the wet mixture while beating. Mix until smooth. (If you can, cover and chill overnight, though the batter can be used right away.)

Rub a light coating of vegetable oil on a waffle iron and preheat it. Leave the batter out of the refrigerator to warm up a bit as your waffle iron is preheating.

Spoon ⅓ to ½ cup of batter into the waffle iron and cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until the waffles are light brown.

(I ended up using close to 1¼ cup batter for each batch in order to fill up the waffle iron.)