How Do You Make Flour Using A Mortar & Pestle?
Mortar and pestles have been used since antiquity for making flour, grinding spices, creating medicines and making salves and potions. Early mortar and pestles were made with wood, and many cultures used hollowed out tree trucks and rocks as a mortar and pestle to grind flour from wheat, seeds and nuts. Making flour today, using a mortar and pestle, is time consuming and hard work considering that grain mills or even a blender will do the job with little effort in a fraction of the time. Fill the bowl of the mortar 1/4 full of wheat berries. Wheat berries are the whole wheat seeds and they can be purchased at many health food stores either in packages or in bulk. Depending on the size of your mortar and pestle, the amount will be anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 cup of wheat berries. Use the pestle to pound the wheat berries in the mortar, breaking the seed hulls. Hold the pestle firmly and begin grinding the berries against the bottom of the mortar, using a circular motion until the majority
