Grinding grain

[coloradoclyde]

Do you grind your own corn, wheat or other grains?
What do you make with your ground grains?

 

[necchi]

Grist mill; https://www.google.com/search?q=Grist+mill&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=what+is+a+grist+mill

 

[coloradoclyde]

Umm! let me clarify the question Necchi.

I am wondering if anyone grinds their own grains and what food/recipes you use them in?

 

[George]

I don't grind my own, but I have bought cornmeal from White's Mill at Abingdon, VA, and from McHargue's Mill at Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park in KY. They are both coarse meals ground in old stone mills powered by water”¦ does that count? :grin:

I've used the meals to make rockahominy, corn pones, hasty pudding and as a thickener in various trekking dishes.







Spence

 

[coloradoclyde]

Nice pictures :hatsoff:
Those look good enough to eat.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I grind my parched corn into Rock-a-hominy (not the same as hominy grits so Alden can relax)...other names for ground, parched corn are nookik, tassmanáne, gofio...but I admit that I use a modern machine...

mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa :slap:

I would like to find something like a metate and stone...

LD

 

[coloradoclyde]

I have a corona mill ....looking to utilize it more.

Sure a metate or stone wheels would be great.....but have to make due with what I got.

 

[George]

I'll be interested to see what you work out. I was surprised to learn that there were steel mills for grinding corn in the early days. I wonder how similar they were to your corona mill.

THE SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE
August 28, 1736

JUST IMPORTED in the Ship Anna Maria,.... crates & hogsheads of earthen ware, indian corn mills, extraordinary good oval ey'd indian hatchets,

The South-Carolina Gazette
December 10, 1750
CHARLES-TOWN
”¦.grind stones of various sizes, and quern stones of different dimensions, also steel corn mills, a small assortment of family medicines,

THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE
September 19, 1766
...grindstones, hand millstones, most sorts of pewter

THE SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE
September 25, 1736
THIS DAY IMPORTED...white cotton caps, quern stones, bohea tea,

The South-Carolina Gazette
June 10, 1751
”¦.grind stones, and quern stones for grinding Indian corn.

The quern mill was an interesting machine, used by frontier families until a regular water-powered stone mill became available. Here's one from Frontier Living, by Edwin Tunis. Excellent book, by the way, as are his Colonial Living and Colonial Craftsmen.



Spence

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Holy crap...a metate goes for like $150.00 so what does one of those querns cost? Let alone the shipping? Don't think the wife is gonna go for it in the basement...probably go with a manual grinder OR maybe I will run up to the brewing supply shop and use theirs.

LD

 

[George]

Maybe she would go for the lady's model? :haha:



Spence

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Telling her something is "woman's work" is not on my list of "healthy ideas" for this calendar year...

:haha:

LD

 

[coloradoclyde]

Spence!, I'm at a loss for words......but you're giving google a run for their money... :haha:

I know where there are several mill stones that are now lawn ornaments, about the size of a quern.

I did not now that they had steel mills and do not know how far back a corona mill goes..

 

[jferguson]

I have three different iron handmills we use to crack corn for the chickens and we have used them to make cornmeal. There is an adjustment screw that can be cranked down to tighten the burrs. Don't know when they were invented. Look similar but smaller than the cast iron coffee mills you see with two flywheels in the old general stores on the tV westerns. Corn mill has just one flywheel/crankwheel. They still work.