Flour From Canada's Far North West: With Some Account of Wheat Growing and Flour Milling, Ancient and Modern (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Rlmeval man reduced wheat to flour by means of a hand stone for thousands of years; this was the only form of mill ing in use. The grain was placed in a hollow stone and pounded into meal by means of a stone crusher. Aborigines in all countries used this simple process of milling. The first grinding mill was the saddle stone. This marked the initial step in the development of milling processes. Lt has been used throughout the world. The Greeks and Romans knew it. And it is still in use. The upper surface of the stone was niad'e concaverin this hollow the grain was rubbed and ground by means of another stone. This was worked backward and forward. Not rolled. Large numbers of these ancient saddle stones have been discovered and bear witness to the use to which they were put. L'he millers of Babylon. Nineveh. Assyria and Egypt used this process. Two limestone statuettes from tombs on the Nile near the pyramids of Saggarat show women engaged in grinding with the saddle stone. Both of these are of date about 2209 Six hundred years later. When Joseph become Pharaoh's administrator of grain supplies. The chief baker was imprisoned and subsequently hanged for producing bad flour. His grinding was done on the saddle stone. On this side of the Atlantic the aboriginal ih habitants Were saddle stone millers. As their relics attest. And it is a remarkable fact that their saddle stones were greatly superior in shape and finish to any European saddle stone that has come down to the present day.

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