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[UnruhBays, Melanie A]

> There's a ridged roller break for biscuits that does provide aeration,
> it seems. Pictures suggest that the rollers are kind of like long gears
> whose teeth don't quite mesh. <clipped>
>  
For modern English, the spelling is brake and break is what it does.  I
think you will find the ridged rollers were originally used to crush flax
and hemp.
>  
	<clipped>It seems to me that the roller break wouldn't accomplish
this in
> the same way, but I suspect that if it absolutely didn't do the job, it
> wouldn't have remained a commercially available food prep tool for
> upwards of 200 years.
> 
> Adamantius    
> 
Think about the last time you kneaded 8 to 10 pounds of bread dough then
multiply by 20 or 30 and you understand why bakers use brakes.  It may not
produce beaten biscuits, but that's a bagatelle when literally producing
your daily bread.

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