Identifier: americancookery19unse_4 (find matches)
Title: American cookery
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Publisher: New York (etc.) : Whitney Publications (etc.)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Candlemas Day IN cold countries, especially, February2 is watched with interest to learn theweather that is to follow. This is, nodoubt, owing to a couplet, which says: If Candlemas Day be fair and bright,Winter will have another flight. festival is ^doubtless the survival of theancient Roman custom. The Romansdevoted the month of February to theinfernal gods, as they held that at thefirst of the month Pluto stole Proserpine,and that Ceres, mother of Proserpine,searched all through the night at Sicilywith torches alight from Mt. ^Etna.In New England, many farmers used to Thus St> Agatha>s festival is kept still in look over their bins and corn cribs toascertain whether there was enough offood to allow the addition of a cow, orextra hogs, or if there needs be1 a littlesaving with the ;. feed on hand. InScotland they say, If Candlemas be bright and clear,Therell be twa winters a the year. Candlemas is a fixed feast day, and isusually celebrated also by the church ofEngland, often

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