Suffolk
Formerly in this county it was the custom in most farm-houses for any servant who could bring in a branch of hawthorn in full blossom to receive a dish of cream for breakfast. To this practice the following rhyme apparently alludes:—
“This is the day,
And here is our May,
The finest ever seen,
It is fit for the queen;
So pray, ma’am, give us a cup of your cream”—
Brand, Pop. Antiq. 1849, vol. i. p. 229.