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Synonyms for pestle

machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores

a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone

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a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar

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grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar

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The woman was said to have gone into the bedroom where the three children were sleeping and hit them one after the other with a pestle and thereafter slashed their throats.
'[After being slapped] he left the room and few minutes later came back with the pestle which he hit her with.' The SSP said, adding that the 22-year-old son had developed friction with his mother after he had married Sadaf Sarhandhi alias Rabi in June, 2016 who had a five-year-old daughter from her previous marriage.
In 2014, Adele Thomas directed Pestle at the Globe's indoor Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (hereafter SWP).
Place the garlic and rosemary in a mortar and pound with a pestle. Add the wine, vinegar, sugar and capers, and mix well.
To make the garlic and ginger paste: Place the garlic and ginger in a food processor or pestle and mortar and blend with just enough water to make a smooth paste.
Atthasarn says the Penang curry can be prepared from scratch by combining lemongrass, peppercorn, cilantro, shallots, garlic, salt, chili and other Thai herbs, and gently pounding them in a mortar and pestle. The mixture is left overnight to dry out.
Place the Szechuan pepper, salt and black peppercorns in a pestle and mortar or grinder, and grind to a fine powder.
Genoa, Jan 21 (BNA): Genoa's famous "pestle and mortar pesto sauce" has applied to join UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List, according to the Italian News Agency "AGI".
Toast 1 tbsp cumin seeds in a dry pan and place 50g cayenne pepper, 125g smoked paprika, 1 tbsp onion powder, 1 tbsp garlic powder, 1 tsp peppercorn, 1 tbsp cumin seeds, 1 tsp dried oregano, and 1 tsp dried thyme, into a mortar and pestle. Grind until it becomes a powder and rub on beef or pork.
BECAUSE CHESTNUTS AREN'T JUST FOR CHRISTMAS SERVES 6-8 INGREDIENTS | 25g butter | 3 tbsp olive oil | 12 rashers streaky bacon, roughly chopped | 1 leek, finely diced | 1 head celery, finely diced | 3 heads celeriac, peeled, finely diced | Half bunch parsley, stalks removed, roughly chopped, plus a little extra to serve | 3 red onions, finely diced | 1 bay leaf, spine removed, pounded with a little salt in a pestle and mortar to a fine dust | 1.5 tbsp ground nutmeg | 2 juniper berries, roughly crushed | 5 garlic cloves, finely chopped | 300g cooked, peeled chestnuts, roughly chopped | 250ml double cream | 1l chicken stock | Salt and black pepper METHOD 1.
Kitchen goods embrace function with elegance; the iconic piece in the collection is a pot for aromatic herbs that has an auto water supply, another eye catcher is a Wass mortar with a wood-tipped pestle. For the table, "we did not want anything too classical," Haidu said.
The difference, they say, is in how the pesto is prepared in the mortar and pestle (the word "pesto" is a derivative of pestle, which comes from the Italian word pestare, meaning to crush).