Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1913 — Chance for Inventors. [ARTICLE]

Chance for Inventors.

The preparation of nixtamal by band Is qufte laborious, the Mexican women of the peon clasp spending a fair proportion of each day mashing the day’s supply of nixtamal on a metate with a stone rolling pin after It has been prepared for this process by being boiled withi lime. Nixtamal is the name of the corn itself after having been soi treated; after grinding it is known as masa. As the tortillas and tamales made from masa prepared in the manner described form the staple diet of the Mexican people, a machine for the easy preparation of nixtamal ought to find a wide sale.