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And in northern Europe, both the Sami and the Vikings used bunches of birch twigs to whisk ingredients together. But while human civilization became more advanced and complex as the years passed, mixing techniques stayed mainly the same for millennia.
It was not until a rush of innovation in the 19 th century that we saw the birth of our modern mixing technology. Beginning in the hand cranked egg-beater revolutionized mixing and made egg-based emulsions such as mayonnaise easier to achieve.
This seemingly simple device has over 1, different patents. Then in the first patents for electric mixers were granted — and the rest, as they say, is history. Innovation in industrial mixing has continued to accelerate since then.
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Sign up for Monthly E-newsletter. Search Google Appliance Enter the terms you wish to search for. Smithsonian Website. The casting is crisp and most of the decorative elements are in excellent condition.
Motifs for decorating mortars during the 16th century included running foliage, imaginary creatures, animals and stylised heads. Some symbols gave a hint of the function of the mortar.
One of the motifs on this mortar depicts St. Sebastian being shot with arrows for refusing to denounce his faith. This may be an allusion to the life giving properties of medicines as Sebastian was venerated as a protector against plague. During the 16th century, mortars and pestles were standard domestic utensils.
They were used daily in the preparation of food. Herbs and spices, loaves of sugar, grains and other ingredients were virtually all of supplied whole until the 18th century and ground in the home. Mortars were also used for grinding soaps and for the preparation of perfumes.
Mortars and pestles were also standard tools of the trade for physicians and apothecaries. A little Morter weighing five or six pounds with a pestle of the same matter.
A middle sized Morter of Marble, and a pestle of wood, and a stone morter with the same pestle. The Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius criticised the trend of apothecaries replacing doctors in the preparation of medicines: " Larger households possessed several mortars for preparing potions and remedies.
The modern garden evolved from the plots outside larger households in which grew the life preserving herbs and flowers used in medicine. Mortars were also associated with alchemy, the quest to turn base metals into gold. Mortars were deemed to have special properties: in them one might discover the secret of life. Mortar and pestle. This object consists of 2 parts. Mortar Pestle.
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