relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/5553/
title: Sorghum Pericarp Thickness and Its Relation to Decortication in a Wooden Mortar and Pestle
creator: Scheuring, J F
creator: Sidiibi, S
creator: Rooney, L W
creator: Earp, C F
subject: Sorghum
description: In Mali, as in most parts of West Africa, sorghum is decorticated  as the first step in food preparation (Rooney and Kirleis 1980). The  term "milling" usually refers to decortication of the grain plus  reduction of the decorticated grain into flour or other products.  Traditionally, decortication is accomplished by pounding the grain  in a wooden mortar with a wooden pestle. The pestle weighs  approximately 3 kg and does not have a metal butt like many  pestles used in India. The mortar weighs approximately 12 kg and  has an approximate capacity of 12 L. Before decortication, the  grain is washed thoroughly to remove dust, glumes, and small  stones. During washing, the grain absorbs water and reaches about  20% moisture. Immediately...........
publisher: American Association of Cereal Chemists
date: 1983
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/5553/1/CerealChem_60_1_86-89_1983.pdf
identifier:   Scheuring, J F and Sidiibi, S and Rooney, L W and Earp, C F  (1983) Sorghum Pericarp Thickness and Its Relation to Decortication in a Wooden Mortar and Pestle.  Cereal Chemistry, 60 (1).  pp. 86-89.  ISSN 0009-0352     
relation: http://www.aaccnet.org/cerealchemistry/backissues/1983/chem60_86.pdf