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Encyclopedia Britannica



WAFER

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 229 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WAFER , a thin flat cake or
sheet
  of paste, usually circular in shape. The derivation of the word, which is the same as " waffle," a
batter
 -cake cooked in waffle-irons and served hot, is given under "
Goffer
 ," which is adapted from the French form of the Teutonic
original
 . As articles of
stationery
 , wafers consist of thin brittle, adhesive disks, used for securing papers together, and for forming a basis for impressed official seals. They are
made of a thin paste of very fine flour, baked between " wafer irons " over a charcoal fire till the thin stratum of paste becomes dry and brittle and the flour
starch
  is partly transformed into glutinous adhesive dextrin. The cake is cut into round disks with suitable steel punches.
Bright
  non-poisonous colouring matter is added to the paste for making coloured wafers. They are also made of gelatin. Wafers of dry paste are used in medical practice to enclose powders or other forms of drugs, thus rendering them easy to swallow.
In ecclesiastical usage the
term
  " wafer " is applied to the thin circular disk of unleavened bread, stamped with a
cross
 , the letters I.H.S. or the Agnus Dei, which is the form of the consecrated bread as used in the service of the Eucharist by the Roman Catholic
Church
 .


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