Early one September morning there floated out from Blanche Devine's kitchen that clean, fragrant, sweet scent of fresh-baked cookiescookies with butter in them, and spice, and with nuts on top.

"[30] The Roumanians of Transylvania believe that "every fresh-baked loaf of wheaten bread is sacred, and should a piece inadvertently fall to the ground, it is hastily picked up, carefully wiped and kissed, and if soiled, thrown into the firepartly as an offering to the dead, and partly because it were a heavy sin to throw away or tread upon any particle of it."