Raisins V Sultanas

[Hopkirk]

What's the difference, and which do you prefer?

[murraymints]

sultanas...bigger, plumper not as dry...

[dannyk13]

Sultanas are seedless.Personally I don't have a preference.

[Hopkirk]

I find raisins a bit gritty.

Are they just dried a bit more than sultanas, or are they a different variety of grape?

[Old_Geezer]

Isn't one a subset of the other, or something like that ? I recall looking it up once, and I don't think the definitions were that clear.

[Old_Geezer]

No particular preference, they are much of a muchness.

[Prudie]

I thought raisins were from dried black or red grapes and sultanas from dried green ones? Sultanas are the ones that plump up nicely when soaked in rum or whisky :-)

[dannyk13]

https://www.thekitchn.com/whats-the-difference-between-raisins-sultanas-and-currants-223285

[mikey4444]

Hoppy....generally, they are a different grape variety, from what we call here in Britain as raisins.

Another often confused variety are what we call "currants" I always thought, until a couple of years ago that they were dried blackcurrants. But they are just another variety of dried grape ::

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zante_currant

[douglas9401]

Raisins are for the more staid in society where sultanas are known to be preferred by those of a more outgoing, hedonistic bent as celebrated in the ditty Sultanas Of Schwing.

[Hopkirk]

Oh no! I forgot about currants.

This is getting too confusing.

[jno]

au contraire, raisins are for entrepreneurs and adventurers, as in Raisin the Titanic.

[mikey4444]

Your are telling me Hoppy.

A few years, I baked a fruit cake with currants in and no raisins, as I knew my friends wife didn't like raisins.

But she still wouldn't eat it, as she quite correctly called the currants raisins and not dried blackcurrants, as I had thought !

Mind you, she was and remains a fussy cow !

[jno]

mikey, Zante currants are dried grapes but regular red and black currants are berries.

[mikey4444]

JNO....yes, I know that now !

[jno]

and just in time for Christmas!

[mccfluff]

i love raisins, sultanas not so much, they remind me of plucked flies...

[mikey4444]

I have just baked a Seed Cake ( with Caraway Seeds).

Its even more like a cake with dead flies in it !

[Hopkirk]

Put the kettle on Mikey, I'm coming round for a slice