[Sca-cooks] Graters?

[Susan Lin]

I have a small grater that I've had for 100 years that goes with my nutmeg
and dried ginger.  Couldn't you just use a microplane?  Not period but
affective.

Shoshana

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Elaine Koogler <kiridono at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hrothny,
> Talk to Miguel of the Spanish Peacock.  I know he takes commissions and he
> might be intrigued at doing something like this.
>
> I would be interested to discover what they used in period to grate
> nutmegs...it would be extremely difficult to reduce a nutmeg to powder
> using
> a mortar and pestle.  I guess it could be done...use something like a
> hammer
> to break the nutmeg into small pieces, then grind them in the mortar...but
> surely they had something more sophisticated, certainly by the end of our
> period?
>
> Kiri
>
> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:30 AM, Terri Morgan <online2much at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > > http://www.ascasonline.org/articolo11.html
> > > has the fancy silver ones that came to be common in the 18th century.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > I went looking online after reading the article you posted (I bookmarked
> > microplane, just in case) and that led me to this:
> >
> >
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110405926573&ih=001&categ
> > ory=1219&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1<
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110405926573&ih=001&categ%0Aory=1219&ssPageName=WDVW&rd=1
> >
> >
> >
> > Wow. Not that I can afford something like that but it does intrigue me
> and
> > challenge me to look around to see if there is something really rocking
> out
> > there. That I can afford. :(
> >
> >
> > But what a great 12thNight gift it would be for more than one of my
> > friends.
> >
> >
> > Hrothny
> >
> >
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