Raisins vs Sultanas. Fight!

[Ming the Merciless]

OK, I think we need to hear this story!

Food fight at a mountaineering club party a few years back. Alcohol may have been involved.

 

[PK99]

I like to rinse and soak my sultanas in boiling water. It makes them much more moist & plumpscious.

I tried that with my dried plums once. I won't repeat the experiment. Q

 

[annedonnelly]

Sultanas, raisins and currants in that order.

Sultanas are plumper and juicer. Currants can be bitter.

I have to restrain myself as I could happily eat any dried fruit by the handful. The only point to that Christmas malarkey that some people like to celebrate is the mince pies, Christmas cake (marzipan but no icing) and Christmas pudding.

 

[oldwheels]

They actually tend to come from different grape varieties as well, not only the amount/type of drying.

Raisins and sultanas are fairly similar types of grape, green varieties, but currants come from a completely different, much smaller fruiting dark grape (usually Black Corinth). Raisins can be made from any green variety, while sultanas only come from a seedless variety.

I bow to your superior knowledge.

 

[Alex321]

The only point to that Christmas malarkey that some people like to celebrate is the mince pies, Christmas cake (marzipan but no icing) and Christmas pudding.

Are you sure you aren't me?

 

[presta]

Raisins are OK, I eat some mixed nuts and raisins every morning with my breakfast. Sultanas, yuk, they remind me of those strange green curries you used to get in the 1960s.

 

[mjr]

Raisins for me. Big fat juicy raisins. Or Eccles cakes.

Congratulations on inspiring "pain aux Eccles cakes"

 

[si_c]

Congratulations on inspiring "pain aux Eccles cakes"

Is that a sandwith with two pain-au-raisin and an eccles cake filling?

 

[MichaelW2]

I like to rinse and soak my sultanas in boiling water. It makes them much more moist & plumpscious.

Soak then in tea or something alcoholic. I put them in apple crumbles to soak up the apple juice

 

[mjr]

Is that a sandwith with two pain-au-raisin and an eccles cake filling?

Croissant pastry wrapped around an Eccles cake instead of a chocolate stick.

 

[si_c]

Croissant pastry wrapped around an Eccles cake instead of a chocolate stick.

 

[mjr]

Sainsbury sell both Jus-Rol croissant pastry and packet Eccles cakes, if you've no friendly baker nearby doing special orders...

I'm not sure sultanas would work in croissants. Raisins and almonds do.

 

[Blue Hills]

Like them both - sometimes chuck on breakfast cereal eaten of an evening.

A vital ingredient in my home-made cycling snack.

 

[DaveReading]

None, they all look like dead flies with there wings missing

 

[T4tomo]

that currant slice thing, was know as "Fly pie" in our house