Sorry Martha but banging the head of garlic around in two metal bowls simply
did not work. It did create an extreme amount of racket leading someone to
scream a lot and say that he was not eating it. It did however at least
take off the majority of the papery stuff and partially separate the cloves.
Perhaps had I kept at it, it would have worked but it was beginning to tire
me out.

What worked like a dream though was the garlic peeler. It's like a flexible
sleeve. Just put the cloves in one at a time and rub. Peel comes right
off. So total time for all 3 cloves was perhaps 10 minutes, if that. Would
have taken me a lot longer to do this by hand.