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Pulverising Ash Weds ashes

Foaming DraughtFoaming Draught Shipmate
in Ecclesiantics
I clarified my starting title from "pulverising ashes", in case Shipmates thought that it was something which happened after cremation.

I was singing the praises of my Breville stick blender (no, this isn't a Heaven What's for Dinner thread, although I might cross-reference it there) as it pertains to leek and potato soup, to my sister-in-law who is Rector of a thriving Anglican parish (A/C, not my scene). She replied, "A good stick blender is a useful thing. I just used mine this week to pulverise the ashes."

Is this a common ploy?

Comments

  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    We don’t use or make enough ashes for a stick blender to be effective. I have used pestle and mortar, or just the back of a spoon, and then picking out any larger pieces.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    BroJames wrote: »
    We don’t use or make enough ashes for a stick blender to be effective. I have used pestle and mortar, or just the back of a spoon, and then picking out any larger pieces.

    I think FatherInCharge uses a spoon, as did Madam Sacristan when it was her job to prepare the ashes.
  • MarthaMartha Shipmate
    I don't know what our minister pulverised the ashes with, but he turned up at the church kitchen asking if we had some olive oil, as they were a bit dry. We only had vegetable oil so he had to make do with that. First time I've had someone mixing ashes at the front counter!
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Vegetable oil? Is Outrage!!
    :wink:

    Madam S used any cooking oil she happened to have at home, bringing a small amount to the church in a small Phial which had once been part of a portable set of Communion vessels...
  • CyprianCyprian Shipmate
    BroJames wrote: »
    We don’t use or make enough ashes for a stick blender to be effective. I have used pestle and mortar, or just the back of a spoon, and then picking out any larger pieces.

    That's exactly what I use after burning the palms in my mum's old pressure cooker, (which I can't bring myself to throw away but which I also daren't use for its intended purpose, for which it hasn't been used since 1989).
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