Butter penny

In the past, an income received by the farmer’s wife (farmers’ wife, peasant woman) by agreement defining marriage rights, or conventionally, for her free use, from her provision of dairy services on the farm, also called milk money. – A levy, mainly for church building purposes, which was paid to manufacturers of Christmas stollen. The use of butter for this pre-Christmas cake was originally not permitted by the church because the Advent months (the period including the four Sundays before Christmas) are liturgically a lenten season. In 1491, however, Pope Innocent VIII allowed the baking of butter on the condition that a tax be paid for it, which was to go to charitable objectives.

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