APPLE PIPS, burning: divination
1849 HALLIWELL Popular Rhymes 224. I remember throwing apple-pips into the fire, saying ‘If you love me, pop and fly, If you hate me, lay and die,’ addressing an imaginary love, or naming some individual whose affection was desired to be tested.

1850 N & Q 1st ser. II 4 [Suffolk] The maiden takes an apple-pip, and naming one of her followers, puts the pip in the fire. If it makes a noise in bursting from the heat, it is a proof of love; but if it is consumed without a crack, she is fully satisfied that there is no real regard towards her in the ...