[Sca-cooks] Bread recipe request (OOP)

[Terry Decker]

>> Michaelmas presumably equates to the Celtic Lughnassad, so I suspect
Struan
>> Michael is a modification of Irish fine wheat cake mentioned in the early
>> literature.
>
>*blink*?
>
>Michaelmas, September 29th, is at the end of the grain harvest. I was
>under the impression that Lughnassad was in the same time frame as Lammas,
>the beginning of August and thus the beginning of the grain harvest...?
>
>-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net

I am considering this more in the mythology of the particular beings rather
than by dates.

Modern convention places Lammas and Lughnassad together.  The pagan Celtic
calendar was based on a lunar month and a 30 lunar year cycle.  Feast days
not fixed to the equinoxs tended to shift to different times in a month.

Most people also fail to take into account that the change from the Julian
to Gregorian calendar created a shift of ten days in the calendar and that
when England adopted the Gregorian calendar the shift was 11 days.

BTW, under the Julian calendar, the presumed date of Lughnassad falls more
closely to the Feast of the Assumption (Aug. 15) than to Lammas.

Bear