[Sca-cooks] Unknown cooking instrument?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Virginia Davies wrote:

> I have a photo in one of my books which shows a whole row of cooking  
> pots, a
> mortar and at the far left something unknown on a table which may  
> have a
> spout on the side.  A woman is standing by it with a long
> spoon/stick/unknown and on the table appear to be 2 graduated tiers  
> which
> looking under magnification could even be a decorated cake.  My copy  
> is in
> BW and I'm using it as part of an illumination which will represent  
> our
> Kingdom's (Atenveldt) Cook's Guild.  Most of the Yahoo groups don't  
> accept
> emails with attachments but I'd like to send the BW and my  
> (incomplete)
> illumination in color.
>
>
>
> Please advise if you'd like to see it or think you might be able to  
> identify
> it.

 From your description, any chance it's some kind of small mill? Two  
flat cylindrical stones, one on top of the other, pierced down the  
center for an axis, the top one maybe a little smaller, possibly some  
kind of spout for liquids at or near the junction, or possibly a  
handle for turning?

Adamantius






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