The heathen English called February Solmonath, the month of cakes, because they offered cakes to their gods in it. Bede gave this as part of his account of the old English months, from before the English became Christian. He said nothing more about what the cakes were or how they were offered.
Solmonath and the cakes for the gods
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Sol-monath dici potest mensis placentarum, quas in eo Diis suis offerebant
From Bede's De Temporum Ratione, ch. 15, ed. Giles, vol. 6, p. 179. Read the original
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