Coler's Calendarium Oeconomicum has a paragraph in December about baking.  While thinking about the list of cookies I had decided to tackle, this entry amused me.  I wonder if culturally the baking thing is related to a long term 'laying up' of stores for the cold Winter months?  And I wonder why they did this?  Fuel better spent on humans?  Yeast ( Read more... )

So, again from yesterday, here are more prediction tools from Coler's Calendarium Oeconomicum & perpetuum...  This is more like the "Grimm" version of the 12 Days of Christmas!  It seems that one notes if the day is sunny on any of the 12 Days of Christmas. I wonder what happens if there is a contradictory sunshine day?  The accompanying piece is ( Read more... )

I love this stuff.  For some years now I have been plodding my way through a 1592 publication called:
Calendarium Oeconomicum & perpetuum, Das ist Ein stetswerender Calender darzu ein sehr nützliches & nötiges Haußbuch, vor die Haußwirt ... by Johann Coler.  I'd describe it as a perpetual almanac, and it is full of quips, superstitutions, and folk ( Read more... )