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Montreal weather: December — it's like the Friday of the year

The month begins with grey skies and flurries.

Not-quite-cookie-cutter twins Blake, left, and Avery Preston jump in a puddle while waiting with their mother Jessica Kirzner to pick up their big brother after school in Pointe-St-Charles Nov. 30, 2022.
Not-quite-cookie-cutter twins Blake, left, and Avery Preston jump in a puddle while waiting with their mother Jessica Kirzner to pick up their big brother after school in Pointe-St-Charles Nov. 30, 2022. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

Dec. 1 is Cookie Cutter Day, according to a variety of websites that don’t seem to know when or why it started.

The inventor of the cookie cutter is better known. His name was Alexander P. Ashbourne and he was born into slavery in Philadelphia around 1820, according to blackpast.org. By the 1860s, he was a respected caterer. While catering the 1863 Emancipation Celebration in Philly, he became critical of the shapes of biscuits and “began a decade long process to create a device, a spring-loaded biscuit cutter, that would guarantee a uniform shape and size.”

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Whether your day ends up being uniform or otherwise, celebrate with cookies. It’s what Ashbourne would have wanted.

Expect a mainly cloudy high of 2 C during the day with a few flurries and a low of minus-5 C at night.