[Sca-cooks] Grating bread was Kitchen Scene by Campi

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

While we're talking about mortars, has anyone ever *made* a large wooden
one? I find that I want one, but of course I can't actually find one
anywhere.

Margaret

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Sue Clemenger wrote:

> I think the reason it occured to me that it might be a mortar-and-pestle
> is because I got to see some really big ones this past fall in
> England--maybe in the same kitchen at Hampton Court that Selene got to
> see just recently? I mean, theoretically I knew that there would be big
> ones, from recipes and such, but that's a whole 'nother ball game from
> actually seeing one.
> --maire, who's only got one, and it's small (would hold maybe a cup and
> a half, total?)
>
> Ron Carnegie wrote:
> >
>
> >        It is funny to me that the idea of the mortar never even occured to
> > me, and unlike most home kitchens we had a large marble mortar like the one
> > in the painting that started this converstation.