SC - RE: sultanas & Sugar

[Decker, Terry D.]

> 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...
> 
The common dried grape in the US is the raisin and what winds up in the
lunch box are packages of raisins.  Sultanas are also sold as golden,
seedless raisins.  Sultanas and currants are less common and higher priced.

> 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. 
> 
The most common commercial sweetener in the US is corn syrup.  The most
common household sweetener is sugar -either cane or beet.  I tend to use
cane sugar, honey and molasses.

Modern European recipes tend to use beet sugar, but the process for
extracting the sugar dates only from 1793 and wide-spread commercial
production of beet sugar begins about 1878.  

Bear
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