Catalogue of Brand Material.
{d) Water.
Divination of year's pro- sperity from reflection of sun in pail of water -
" Sugar-cupping " (drinking sugar and water from cer- tain wells) - - _
{Easter Monday). Children drink liquorice water
{e) Plants.
Daffodils may be brought into house - . . Graves decked with flowers - Church decked with box (obs.) Cornfields visited. " Corn-showing " (taking cake and cider to wheat- fields) - - - - " Walking the wheat " Herbs eaten in forcemeat or puddings - - - -
(/) Special Viands.
Red herring riding away ^ -
Gammon of bacon (cf . Selden) Leg of pork stuffed with
herbs Lamb with mint-sauce
Veal (usually stuffed, and served with bacon) -
Veal with herb-pudding
Tansy pudding - - -
Duck (stuffed ?) to ensure payment of debts next year
LOCALITY.
Lines. (Marshland),
Yorks.
Northumberland, Derby- shire (High Peak).
East Riding.
Cornwall. Herefordsh, Ibid. (Kington).
Herefordsh. Monmouthsh.
(See below.)
Oxford (Queen's College,
17th cent.). North Country.
Salop (Ludlow). General among the well- to-do.
Hull, Lanes., Cheshire, Staffs., Herefordsh.
Cumb., Westm., West Yorkshire.
Durham, York, Lanes. (?), Norfolk, Cambridge (Trin. Coll.). Cf.
Selden and Pepys.
Devon (Plymouth).
1 Cf. "Herrings, herrings white and red! Ten a penny ! Lent is dead ! " F
