Not rollong pins. What are they?

Elf balls ????

 

To quote the joke that's as old as some of us from the old IBM manuals, mouse balls?

 

I use these --ricer and pestle--when I'm making choke cherry jam, so I can separate the fruit from the stone .... Got them at a garage sale and wasn't sure what it was called, only saw the usefulness of it.

 

There is a place in Milton Massachusetts that makes beaten biscuits. It's been in business for 200 years.

http://www.patriotledger.com/business/20160226/two-centuries-of-biscuit-baking-at-bents-in-milton

 

Judy, thought everyone knew about beaten biscuits. Ours weren't as hard as hardtack. We made them about every ten days. Grandma would put the dough on an old stump near the brick kitchen and we (the kids) had to taken turns beating them with an tool that looked just like OPs - but older and well used. We usually had them with thin cut salt cured ham. Yummm when I think about it! Patd

 

And I live in Massachusetts to boot........in the photo, they look like bland crackers, which I might have tasted at one time or another, but I never heard them called beaten biscuits.

 

The only hardtack I'm familiar with and love is.......knäckebröd.

Such an interesting story about your grandmother's method for beating!! As a kid, I bet you thought it was so much fun.....what a great childhood memory.

TY for sharing that.