1142. If you wish to secure lightness, you must always stir cake and eggs a certain way, that is, the way the sun goes.
Kittery, Me., Nashua, N. H., Eastern Massachusetts, and Southern Michigan.
1143. Eggs and cake are commonly beaten and butter made by stirring sunwise.
Newfoundland.
1144. To make cake light, it must always be stirred the same way.
Dalton, Mass., and Alabama.
1145. In cooking soft custard, the stirring must be continued throughout in the direction in which it was begun; otherwise the custard will turn to whey.
Eastern Massachusetts.
1146. If, after turning the crank of a churn for a while with the sun, you change and turn the other way, it will undo all the churning you have done.
Ferrisburgh, Vt.