[Sca-cooks] Barm Brack

[Stefan li Rous]

'Lainie replied to me with:
> Stefan, the word 'peel' in this context is a NOUN, not a verb.
Yep. Thanks. Mordonna's message cleared it up for me. Sometimes I guess 
I read things too literally. Perhaps a cause of or a reason for being 
an engineer and not an artist.
> I discovered several years ago that if I'm
> putting raisins in baked goods, if I pour a little boiling water over 
> them
> and let them sit a few minutes to plump up, I get a much nicer result. 
> I do
> the same with those alleged pieces of 'fruit' that go in fruitcakes.
Yep. I've found wine works well for this, as well.

Stefan
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