down-sign

Updated: May 8, 2025

"Your Aunt Rebecca says that if you cook apple butter in the up-sign of the almanac it boils over easy, but it's the down-sign to-day, and yet this cider boils up all the time." "I guess it'll all burn in the bottom," said Amanda, "if it's the down-sign." "Not if you stir it good when the snitz are in. That's the time the work begins. Here's your mom and Philip."

Anna Balmer Myers - Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites