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

I'd agree that a stick blender is no better than
a regular blender, but I disagree with regard to
a food processor. With a blender, there's at least
a chance it would achieve a fine grind. I'm pretty
sure a normal food processor would produce a coarse
grind, at best.

> 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.

That's a good suggestion. I think it might work.
Of course, that assumes she has a pepper mill.
I'm not sure we can even assume she has a spoon.

> Maybe brewing a strong bay leaf infusion will suffice.

That seems like an even better suggestion. She could
do a cold infusion overnight into the cider vinegar
without upsetting the basic proportions of the recipe.
I've never done a cold extraction on bay leaves,
so I don't know how easily they give up their flavor.

Boosting the number of bay leaves would help ensure
the infusion had sufficient flavoring punch. On the
plus side, it would remove the bay leaf solids from
the final product, which could only be beneficial.