The Blackberry Gang Comments

The old tin sweet-can is long since forgotten, but it had many uses in its day. Not far from where I lived as a child, there was a sweet shop owned by an old woman who was very cranky. The shop was nothing more than a hallway. At one side of the hall, she had a low counter. On it all the jars of every sweet you could think of, she had jars of bobbley dosslers' 12 for a penny or 6 for a halfpenny, asset drops 6 for a penny, bull's eyes 6 for a penny. Bonbon 6 for a penny and so on. If by chance you were there when she was filling the jars you would see the sweet can as she took the lid off. The whiff of the sweets would put the longing on you, and you would want to hold on to the unforgettable smell of fresh sweets for as long as you could.

When the sweet-can became empty, there was a demand for it from all the housewives in the area as it would become the steaming dish for the Christmas pudding, come Christmas.
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