Combining things this time like a good girl

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

I'm assuming that the "stoned raisins" in the Spotted Dick recipe 
have had the pits removed, rather than having participated in a night 
of debauchery where they drank too much. <g>  And one does have to 
wonder why the kids aren't making off-color jokes about the name...

As for broomsticks, I think people who are under the impression that 
they should be flown backwards are harking back to woodcuts from 
about 300-400 years ago wherein people who dislike witches depicted 
them this way because witches supposedly did everything backwards.  
Odd that this group seems to be going on propaganda from the other 
side.

--Barb