Postcard Showing the Ball Mill in the “Seed Department” Exhibit at the Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon, Ca. 1970. Louis H. Frohman, photographer. In the early days of the Shaker Museum, when the collection was displayed so that visitors could get “up close” to the collection,...

Following our earlier post on a Shaker flour chest, the question was posed, “What was so special about Shaker bread and why did they go to so much trouble to grind the flour?”  There are many recipes for Shaker breads and not many had the stringent specifications demanded by...