RE: Pears

That's a potato ricer, I think. My mom had one. Hers had the two
handles, hinged with a perforated basket on one handle and a flat disk
that fit into the basket on the other.  Cooked potato in the basket, lid
over the top, you squeezed the handles together and the potato would
squirt out through the holes in little strings. 

Cyndi 

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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Pears

When I was a child in Northern Florida we had a pomegranate - it was
more a big shrub than a tree.  My grandmother had a tool that looked
like a big potato-masher - a thick wooden hinged piece with a semicircle
with holes in it cut out of one side and a ball-shaped piece that fitted
into it.  
That's not
a very good description, but you put the pomegranate seeds into the
hollowed part and the ball part that fitted into it squeezed the juice
out through the holes. I remember that she once served a punch made with
pomegranate juice to her church women's group, and they were horrified
because they thought she had spiked the punch.
Auralie

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