Heavy cake Sunday at Penzance

On the first Sunday after May Day families from Penzance went out together to Rose Hill, Poltair and other villages near by. They carried flour and the makings of heavy cake to bake at the farm dairies, which were always open to them, and ate junket and sour milk curds cut in diamonds with sugar and cream. The farmers were paid a trifle for the baking. Hone was told these outings were never made before May Day, but after that first Sunday any free afternoon would do.