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Snapdragon

This is a Christmas dish of very easy preparation, and the central feature of a favourite Christmas sport. "A quantity of raisins are deposited in a large dish or bowl (the broader and shallower this is the better), and brandy or some other spirit is poured over the fruit and ignited. The bystanders now endeavour by turns to grasp a raisin by plunging their hands through the flames; and as this is somewhat of an arduous feat, requiring both courage and rapidity of action, a considerable amount of laughter is evoked at the expense of the unsuccessful competitors."