Pause with me for a moment in memory lane before we dash into recipes for several of my favorite wine cakes.

Before his own elevation to an earldom, Disraeli's wife was created Viscountess Beaconsfield by Queen Victoria.

Bring out the rubber tired buggy/Bring out the rubber tired hack/I'm takin' my Johnny to the graveyard/But I ain't gonna bring him back

The blackness didn't notice so much when she was born; but it's unmistakeable now.