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

[r.carnegie at verizon.net]

I think that I was misunderstood here.  What never occured to me was to use a mortar for bread crumbs.  I am certain the item in the painting is a mortar, it looks just like the one I am used to using.  Large and heavy marble.  We got em all over the place at work.


> 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.
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