SC - period mashed foods

[Susan Fox-Davis]

> Hi,
> When we were in germany, I got to go to alot of
> museums. One of them had a section on cooking
> implements. One of these that I remember was a big
> wooden verticle mallet type thingy(excuse the
> technical terms here :) that was either flat or
> slightly curved on one end. The curved ones were used
> in bowls like a mortar and pestle, and the flat ones
> were used on flat surfaces, supposedly to mash foods.
> I'm not sure of the dates, it's been several years, so
> they may or may  not have been period. But it was
> interesting to say the least.
> Nisha

Oh Dear.  I think you have just documented Gallagher's Sledge-O-Matic [tm].

Squish!Selene

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