SC - A funny thing happened to me in the cooking store...

[Stefan li Rous]

Seumas said:
>  They had some new rolling
> pins. Very simple design, long and thin, with no handles (neither the
> thicker, shorter US style with handles, nor the long, thin tapered
> French style I also know). 

Oh! Until you said this I didn't realize there could be a different
shape than what I've seen here, the cylinder with a handle on each
end. Does this French style have handles on both ends with a cylinder
tapering from a larger to smaller circle? It would seem to roll in
a circle rather than straight in that case. Or is it wider around in
the middle than the ends, like a wooden barrel? Or it a cone with
only one handle?

So Adamantius, you said you had seen some post-period rolling pins,
what shape were they? Makes my original question of period rolling
pins even more interesting.

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