Receta Warm Up With German Apple Cake.

The American tradition of Groundhog Day, initially began in Britain with Candlemas Day. Priests would hand out blessed candles to the residents of their community on February 2nd.  This tradition dealt in opposites, if the candles were distributed on a sunny day, harsh winter would keep ahold of the land.  If it was a stormy day, winter weather would end soon to welcome beautiful Eventually the tradition was adopted by Germans, and they used a creature to predict the weather, the hedgehog. If the day was sunny and the hedgehog saw his shadow, people expected more winter weather; conditions were stormy and the hedgehog didn't see its shadow, spring was near.  When the Germans began to immigrate to Pennsylvania, in the 1800s, the…