[Sca-cooks] Almond Mill?
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Mon Feb 21 03:31:53 PST 2011
They still exist. You can do an image search on mandelkvarn, almond
mill, or Mandelmuel and turn them up. One catalog lists them as : 6350
180 mm
Mandelkvarn Almond grinder Mandelmühle
They were mentioned back in 2001 and that post is in the Florilegium.
From: Carolbarke at aol.com
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 01:32:23 EDT
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Almond mill
'>>almond mill' (Mandelmuel) as a common
>kitchen implement (though it makes allowance for
>cooks not having one, telling them to use a mortar
>instead). Given the prevalence
Gee I'd really like to see a picture or the real thing of one of these
Mandelmuel's.<<
The latest catalog from king Arthur Flour has a nut mill in it. It
looks a
lot like a meat grinder, only slightly smaller
Aethelthryth (re-lurking)
Johnnae
On Feb 20, 2011, at 2:31 PM, wheezul at canby.com wrote:
> I'm trying to put together a rudimentary index for the 16th century
> cookbooks I have access to, mostly because I am tired of trying to
> remember 'where *did* I read that'...
> I've been looking through Staindl's "Ein Sehr Künstlichs vnnd
> nutzliches
> Kochbüch" found on google books. The facsimile is a bit smeared and
> hard
> to read, but the very first recipe referenced what I think is an
> almond
> mill, something I haven't found elsewhere (yet).snipped
> Has anyone else see a reference to an almond mill elsewhere? I've
> found a
> picture of a 16th century mustard mill, but I'd love to know more. It
> seems that this mill would grind the almonds very fine.
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