My Corona Grain Mill And Homemade Sifter

Are you sick of sweating and cursing while cranking the grain mill, here is a simple way to make the job quicker and easier. 

When grinding it is often necessary to re-grind the grain several times before reaching the desired consistency. Some of the meal comes out perfectly fine the first time through, while other parts remain coarse and need to be re-ground several times.

Cut the wood to length and nail or screw the pieces together. Lay the screen out on a hard surface, sit the box down flat on top of the screen and cut to fit with a utility knife. Turn the box over and tack the screen to the box with several thumbtacks or small nails to hold the screen in place. 

Take all-purpose cement from the pluming department of the hardware store, and spread generously around the rim of the box over the edge of the screen forming a permanent seal between the wood and the screen. 

When grinding place a section of newspaper under the grinder head and set the box on top. Grind as normal but this time after each pass through the grinder, shake the finer meal onto the newspaper and transferrer into a bowl. 

Pour the coarser meal back into the grinder and re-grind repeating until reaching the desired constancy. This saves running the finer mill back through the mill, making grinding easier and quicker.

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