December 10th
Lux Mundi, Liberty
December 10 was the Roman feast of Lux Mundi, the Light of the World. It was also on this day in 1793 that the French actress Mille Maillard was selected to personify the Goddess of Liberty. She was brought to Notre Dame and seated on the altar, where she was handed a lighted candle to signify liberty and the Light of the World.
According to the Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (Tusser, 1573), this was the time that proper folk lay in stocks of firewood and made jumble-biscuits.
The 17th-century Fairfax Household Book reveals:
To make the jumble-biscuits, take twelve yolks of eggs and five whites, a pound of sugar, half a pound of butter, three-quarters of an ounce of mace finely beaten, a little salt, half an ounce of aniseeds, and half an ounce of caraway seeds. Mix all of this together with as much flour as will work it up into paste, and so mold it into rings or knots. Bake the biscuits until hard and serve forth with spiced wine.
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