SC - RE: sultanas & Sugar

[Varju@aol.com]

Bizarre..  just shows how much regional variations in ability to
find ingredients exists.

I was actually quite stunned to find someone asking what sultanas
were.  Most Australian children have grown up with sultanas in their
lunchbox for morning tea. You can get them in little boxes and
packets. It is just one of those things that you take for granted
in your life...

Sultanas are a grape variety which are small, white, sweet and
seedless.  They are one of the premier drying grapes, and are
much much smaller than raisins.  They are larger than currants
though... I had been under the impression that currants were
dried black-currants, but have just been enlightened and told
that they too are a grape.

Size wise....

Sultanas, aprox 7/16th of an inch
Raisins, approx 12/16ths
Currants, approx 4 or 5/16ths of an inch.

Oh, and many European recipes which call for sugar, actually
would have used beet sugar, rather than cane. I understand
that beets are still the most used source of sweetner in England,
corn in the US, and cane sugar in Australia.

Kiriel
Lochac
reeling from culture shock. 

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