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Smallholding => Techniques and skills => Topic started by: ming on March 03, 2011, 04:19:56 pm

Title: De-Husking Oats ?
Post by: ming on March 03, 2011, 04:19:56 pm

A friend is asking how we coped with de-husking oats in the old days . Does anybody know of any easy way to do this that doesn't involve sitting picking each grain apart with the fingernails ? Not winnowing, jsut splitting off the husks ..?

Title: Re: De-Husking Oats ?
Post by: Blonde on March 17, 2011, 02:05:24 pm

 A ripple mill is what they used to use and sometimes they come up for sale as a second hand lot.  Have never seen them new....