[Sca-cooks] Grain mill question

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 08:14 PM 4/6/2004, you wrote:
>Have a bit of an odd question but here goes.  I have a friend who's 
>planning to bake all of her own bread the odd thing is she also want's to 
>grind her own grain.  The part that isn't, in my opinion, reasonable she 
>whants to do it with a hand quern.

Does she actually know anything about this? Does she know that using a 
quern is such ugly, bonebreaking (literally, if you've seen the 
archeological studies) work that women gleefully paid real money to have 
the miller grin their grain at the mill?There's a reason why it works that 
way...

'Lainie


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