[Sca-cooks] New raisins in de Nola

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>But back to the grapes at hand...fresh, moist grapes would be easier 
>to handle in this recipe, and in general one would think in period 
>that raisins wouldnt hang around long enough to get to be more than 
>7 or 8 months old, being used over the winer they are set by for.
>margali

But the moistness is also from the packaging.  Raisins dry hard 
pretty quickly when they aren't wrapped.  I'm not sure how raisins 
were wrapped in period, but I'd be surprised if it was airtight.

Ranvaig