[Sca-cooks] special pestle for biscuit?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

A standard pestle was more likely made of stone (like the one in my Ikea  
mortar and pestle) than wood. But in this case "pestle" is an approximation 
of  what is described when a man uses the iron implement used by the brothers 
to  break bread up into their greens to attack someone:

"iam ferre non valens  arripuit pilum , unde panis in olera fratrum 
mittendus con terebatur , et eum  omni annisu percussit dicens : ' Nec tibi Deus 
parcat""
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Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

FRENCH BREAD HISTORY:  Seventeenth century  bread
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2016/02/french-food-history-seventeenth-century
.html









In  a message dated 7/23/2016 2:22:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
stefanlirous at gmail.com writes:
Why would a special pestle be needed? What is  assumed about the “standard”
 pestle? That it is of wood? that it is small?