Around the feast of St Simon and St Jude, boys in Bedford went through the town selling baked warden pears, an old cooking variety, from hot pots. They cried their wares with a little rhyme asking who knew what they had in the pot.
Crying Wardens
28 October · Bedford, Bedfordshire
No longer kept
it is the custom at Bedford, now abouts, for boys to cry baked pears in the town with the following stanza
From Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. 2, cols. 1357-1358. Read the original
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