Waffle recipe makes a breakfast treat

Dear Heloise: I lost your waffle recipe and promised my wife breakfast in bed that includes your recipe for waffles. I prepared them before, and she really loved them.

Please help me to delight her again with this recipe. — Joseph, via e-mail

Joseph, I would be happy to reprint this often-asked-for recipe. To make these delicious waffles, you will need:

2 cups biscuit mix

1 egg

1/2 cup oil

1 1/3 cups club soda

Put all of the ingredients in a large bowl and mix (don't overmix — just enough so all the ingredients are blended). Don't leave any big lumps. This batter cannot be kept, so cook the whole batch and put the extra waffles in the freezer to use later when needed. — Heloise

P.S.. To make them "pretty," add a few drops of red food coloring, and they will be pink.

Dear Heloise: Recently, I put bacon in the microwave for what I thought was four minutes. I jumped into the shower thinking my breakfast would be ready when I got out. I stepped out to a smoke-filled house, because I had accidentally punched 40 minutes instead of four.

I related the story to my friends and co-workers, and many of them have told me they have had the same type of accident. Please remind everyone to check the time settings on their microwaves. I should know better than to ever leave anything unattended in the kitchen. — Julie Mock, Harrisburg, Pa.

Yikes! You are one lucky lady. The number of fires that start this way is just too many, folks. So please, don't put something on the stove or microwave and wander away. — Heloise

Dear Heloise: For a good, smooth rise on bread dough — both the initial rise of the whole lump and the second rise after dividing and shaping it into loaves — I use nonstick cooking spray.

After spraying the bowl or loaf pans, and before putting a damp towel on top, I spray some more of the cooking spray on top of the dough. The oil keeps the exposed topside of the dough conditioned and elastic, even more than the water moisture from the towel does. — Steve Snyder, Dallas