Grinding Chiles with Clay – Experiments in my New World ...
Grinding Chiles with Clay. I've seen these clay bowls with lines before and I knew they were some kind of mortar. In Hidalgo and Oaxaca, they seem to be called molcajetes, just like their volcanic rock cousins. I've also seen them called chilmoleras, which makes more sense ( chiles and molinar ). In Muñoz' Diccionario Enciclopedico de ...