The log thus “blessed” protected the house and its inhabitants.
Generally, the custom was for the log to burn for 3 days otherwise beware of misfortune!
His ashes were scattered in stables, orchards or fields to protect against disease and bring prosperity.
This tradition was gradually lost with the arrival of cast iron pans, giving way to pastry Christmas logs. We do not know exactly the origin of this dessert.
For some, the creator of the Yule log would be an apprentice Parisian pastry chef who worked in a chocolate factory in the Saint Germain des Prés district and who had the idea around 1834.
For others, it would be a Lyon invention dating from the 1860s.
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