Sauna Sunday - June 27 -Siebenschläfertag !

Siebenschläfertag

June 27 is Siebenschläfertag (Seven Sleepers Day). If it rains that day, the next seven weeks or the rest of summer is supposedly going to be rainy. While it might seem to refer to the Siebenschläfer rodent (Glis Glis see below), "edible dormouse" in English, it actually commemorates the Seven Sleepers legend. Objections have been raised that the legend might have arisen before the Gregorian reform and as at this time the difference to the Julian calendar amounted to ten days, July 7 would be the actual Seven Sleepers Day. So while you are working that out and the dormouse pie is baking, - lets get naked and have a sauna!

The edible dormouse or fat dormouse (Glis glis) is a small dormouse and the only species in the genus Glis.
It was farmed and eaten by the ancient Romans (usually as a snack), hence the word edible in its name. The dormice were kept and raised either in large pits or (in less spacious urban surroundings) in terra cotta containers, the gliraria, something like contemporary hamster cages.


To this day, wild edible dormice are consumed in Slovenia, where they are considered a rare delicacy and dormouse trapping an ethnic tradition. Use of dormice for food and fur and of dormouse fat as a medicament is documented there since the 13th century. Seasonal dormice feasts were welcome protein supplements for the impoverished peasantry.


The edible dormouse lives in continental Europe. It was accidentally introduced to the town of Tring in England through an escape from Lionel Walter Rothschild's private collection in 1902. As a result, the British edible dormouse population, now 10,000 strong, is concentrated in a 200-square-mile (520 km2) triangle between Beaconsfield, Aylesbury and Luton. Though this animal is regarded as a pest by some, in the United Kingdom the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 prohibits certain methods of killing and taking it, and removing them may require a licence.


Coming: Samir, Zany, Baggage, Sam, Primrose Goddess, Kali...


Dormouse Mains: Sam the Magnificent Dormouse Balls for the Convent and stranglers' dumplings




Salads: Primrose Goddess


Pudding: Mad Hatter's Bread and Butter Dormouse Delight !- Baggage


Drinks:  kali the dormouse strangler


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