Pounding and grinding
Grinding versus pounding. Hands up. Who can really say what grist, pottage, meal, flour, gruel, and dozens of other words meant in the past? Well, I can’t either, at least…
Read moreIt’s the shear bloody work of it (sic). Grinding
Following on the previous post, the point is that banging, hitting, pounding, percussion does not produce flour out of grains (grape skins, chestnuts, bracken I shall leave for another post,…
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