Mark Thorson wrote:
> Goomba38 wrote:
> > k.. wrote:
>
> > > �Do you have a whirly blade coffee grinder? �that would probably be
> > > best. Did the recipe specify fresh or dried? I think that might make a
> > > difference also.
>
> > No, I don't have a whirly blade coffee grinder! I don't drink coffee,
> > lol. I'm a tea drinker.
> > I will be in the market for either a whirly diddy or the mortar/pestle
> > though. Which one would you suggest being most valuable if I only wanted
> > one or the other?
>
> No M&P, no coffee grinder. �I'm revoking your membership
> in RFC.
>
> You do have a stick blender, right? �You might be
> able to grind the leaves by crumbling them into
> one of the other ingredients, such as the cider
> vinegar, then using the blender to pulverize the
> bay leaf bits while they're suspended in the liquid.

A stick blender won't work any better than a regular blender or her
food processor.

All else fails I'd try crumbling a few bay leaves and running them
through a pepper mill set on the finest grind... I've never done this
so I've no idea of the results, and I'm not intimately familiar with
Goomba's grinder but I've heard only good things.

Maybe brewing a strong bay leaf infusion will suffice.