Quotes About Pestle

Around the new mother, three deities mounted guard against the dreaded violence of Silvanus, that 'fierce, terrifying, rough' demon of the woods (Aug., CG, 6, 9, 2): they were Intercidona (for without the blade of the axe one cannot cut trees intercidere); Pilumnus (for without the pestle one cannot make flour), and Deverra (for without the broom one cannot pile up the grain).

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Medical chests of the era contained a brass mortar and pestle to grind compounds, and a selection of surgical

A molcajete is a stone mortar and pestle from Mexico. They're great for grinding spices and making salsa and guacamole because they give everything a nice coarse and rustic feel. I've never collected anything, but I think I might start collecting these because each one is decorated differently.

when, if the tale's true, The Pestle of the moon That pounds up all anew Brings me to birth again To find what once I had And know what once I have known, Until I am driven mad

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.