[Sca-cooks] New raisins in de Nola

[david friedman]

One of the things done in today's cooking workhop was the lemon dish 
from de Nola. The instructions include:

"take new raisins, and clean them well of the seeds, and grind them 
by themselves and strain them through a woolen cloth;"

Straining raisins, even after grinding, sounds pretty difficult; the 
lady who did the dish rehydrated the raisins by boiling them for a 
little. I wondered if perhaps "new raisins" might mean "the kind of 
grapes you use for raisins, before they are dried." Does anyone know?

-- 
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/