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We lived next door to an engineer, and every Christmas Eve he used to send his daughter round and she would ask my sister and I to their house. They would have 2 lb of the best raisins and they put them on a plate and they put some rum over them and they set light to them. The first time we saw this, we daren't touch them – we were frightened, so the other girls were eating them all. So the mother said, ‘What's the matter with you Barbara and Mary Ellen?’ And her daughter said, ‘They're frightened to touch them’. ‘Oh’ she said, ‘Get on with them – they'll not hurt you!’ So we tried them and after that we didn't stop.