"Janet Baraclough" > wrote in message
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> The message <nn56k.79889$MF3.10999@trnddc06>
> from "Paul M. Cook" > contains these words:
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>> "Blinky the Shark" > wrote in message
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>> > Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>> >> "Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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>> >>> It's got to be something to do with manipulating
>> >>> dough or pie making, that's what I think:
>> >>>
>> >>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150260011112
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>> >>> But I can't figure out what. It looks German
>> >>> to me, probably early 20th century.
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>> >> I used to have one. It was used to make Mexican hot chocolate.
>> >> You spun the handle between your hands to whip the milk into a
>> >> froth.
>> >
>> > Molinillo. I've seen them in mainstream supermarkets here in L.A.
>> > -- the all-wood ones like these:
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>> > http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/molinillo.htm
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>> Mine looked sort of like the Columbian version, it was painted with
>> pictures
>> of all kinds of fruits like bananas, limes, cherries etc. It was
>> ceramic.
>> Got it at a Ikea when they first opened back in the mid-80s
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> But does it work? Better or worse than a whisk?

Well I found my blender made much nicer Mexican hot chocolate. The tool was
just for show really, based on what they used in South America for a long
time, I got it at the same time I got a mushroom scrubber shaped like a
mushroom.

Paul
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> Janet