These were used to bake wafers (including communion wafers); see the Velislav Picture Bible (c. 1340) or St. Wenzel (1509) for a demonstration of their use. Historic Food: Wafer Making includes some recipes, and examples of wafers made from early modern irons. More notes can be found at Stefan's Florilegium, Calon Scrolls, and Coquinaria.

• A wafer-iron with scenes from the life of Christ, second half of the 13th century
• Several references to wafers in Le Menagier de Paris, c. 1393
• A wafer-iron with heraldry on one side and geometric patterns on the other, c. 1430
• A wafer-iron with the Agnus Dei on one side and heraldry on the other, c. 1430-1477
Tak þe leues of spourge and a gud porcion of zucre, gynger, & flour of whete mele, & mak paste & bake it in oble yryns.

The Thornton Medical Book
(Liber de diversis medicinis)

• Wafer-iron with two allied coats of arms on one side and one coat of arms on the other, c. 1511
• Wafer-iron with a pelican, eagle, lion, and fish, 1531
• Wafer-iron with two allied coats of arms, 1531
• Wafer iron from 16th century Italy
• A wafer-iron with a coat of arms on one side and a rondel on the other, 16th century
• A wafer-iron with the Annunciation on one side and the Agnus Dei on the other, 16th century
• Peasants by the Hearth by Pieter Aertsen, 1560s
• Wafer-iron with Chrisdof Hinkerskhiercher and his wife Ursula on one side, a coat of arms on the other, 1561
TO MAKE EXCELENT WAFERS THE FRENCH WAY
Take a pinte of cream & heat it luke warme, & mix it in a basin with 2 pound of flowre, to w^ch you must add halfe a quarter of a pinte of youlks of eggs beaten. but before you mix in y^e eggs, you must put in A spoonful of thick yeast, & too this, halfe a pound of fresh butter melted, & a little salt. allsoe put in some nutmegg; cinnamon, & mace beaten, & some naple bisket grated; dissolve a little ambergreece in rosewater & put in. yⁿ lay a spoonful on y^r tongues & bake y^m, but before, you must let y^m stand 2 houres in y^e chimney corner to rise.

Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery
and Booke of Sweetmeats

• A wafer-iron with heraldry on one side, 1564
• A wafer-iron with the Annunciation and Nativity on one side and the Adoration of the Magi on the other, 1565
• Wafer-iron with the baptism of Christ, 1571
• Wafer-iron with heraldry, inscribed "JACOB VON FALCKENSTAIN" on one side and "MARIA MADALENA VON FALCKENSTAIN ZU REIN" on the other, 1580
• Wafer-iron with heraldry symbolizing the alliance between the Volckamer and Haller families of Nuremburg, 1594
• Wafer-iron with the Nativity on one side and a rose on the other, c. 1600
• Still Life with Wafers (Le Dessert de Gaufrettes) by Lubin Baugin, 1630s
• Wafer irons from the late 17th century