From the Improvement Era, December 1970. There must have been a dozen brands and dealers advertising these grinders in the Era of the 1960s — did they have to take turns for the magazine’s advertising space? These grinders had been around for generations (I have and use my grandmother’s) as early food processors — they grind fruit for jam, or vegetables for baby food, or beef for hamburger. What made them so popular among mid-century Mormons, though, was that they could be used, in a pinch, to grind that wheat in your food storage, usually using a special grinding plate or insert. Mine won’t grind nearly fine enough for flour, but makes decent cracked wheat for cereal.
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Boy, this takes me back.
I have a new one in my cupboard, but don’t use it (electric mills are so much easier).
I actually have two of them. I know that one was mother’s, it’s the one I have used but I’m not sure where the other one came from. Maybe from one of my aunts or maybe mother had this from her mother and I didn’t remember that she had two .