[Sca-cooks] querns

[jah at twcny.rr.com]

What an interesting question!
I made one many years ago as a
4-H project.  They are easy to make.
Here is a URL for anyone to see what it looks like:

http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp?query=quern&page=1&offset=0&result_url=redir%3Fsrc%3Dwebsearch%26requestId%3D4f4e6e36591e24%26clickedItemRank%3D3%26userQuery%3Dquern%26clickedItemURN%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.chnmus.net%252FEnglish%252Fnewpage111.htm%26invocationType%3D-%26fromPage%3DNSCPIndex2%26amp%3BampTest%3D1&remove_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chnmus.net%2FEnglish%2Fnewpage111.htm

My best 2 suggestions for one is:

take the image to a carpenter and ask tem to make you one

go to an indian reservation and talk to the elders.
(they had a stone one to use)

I am part indian and had access to many of these things as a child, which gave me an incredibaly enriched life.

I say go for it!  It's a great experience!
Lets not lose "the old ways".

Good luck!

Jules/Mistress Catalina


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> Message: 10
> Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 21:14:21 -0600
> From: Thebard <thebard3 at earthlink.net>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Grain mill question
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> 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.
> 
> She's asked me to help but I don't even know if anyone even makes 
> them 
> anymore.  So anyone have any info that I could use?
> 
> Thanks,
> James P.