What are Sultanas????

[Punky]

Hello Everyone,
I was going to try to make Alissa's "Butternut Noodles with Golden
Curry Sauce". The recipe calls for 1/4 c. sultanas, soaked...
what are sultanas? A type of nut? seed? Please clue me in :p
Thanks In Advance!

[RawTruth]

Golden raisins is what I think they are -- sultana's the British name for them.

Okay, I googled it and here's an official definition:

The sultana differs from the raisin in two ways, one of which is fairly apparent. It is lighter in colour – the lighter the better, in quality terms – but it is also the sun-dried grape of one variety alone, the green, seedless Sultana grape of ancient (possibly Persian) lineage. The business of drying vine fruits has taken ancient names like Smyrna and Corinth, and Mediterranean families into the New World: the sultanas grown in the irrigated lands along the Murray River, in Victoria and South Australia, are especially fine and were developed by Greek immigrants from the 1920s onwards.

I've always just used golden raisins when recipes call for sultanas.

So there -- way more than you probably every wanted to know, Punky!

[caramba]

LOL! We recently had a post on the Aussie Raw board saying, "Don't they have sultanas in the States??? I always see raisins in recipies but not sultanas"

[Punky]

Thanks Raw Truth for clueing me in! I'll use golden raisons ;)

Too funny Caramba...Alissa got the recipe from Shazzie (she's
from England I'm sure you know). I'm pretty knowledable about
ingrediants since I have a jillion cookbooks but never heard of a
sultanas before. I know what currants are.
Sultanas sound so exotic...
Always learning :D

[Punky]

Thanks Raw Truth for clueing me in! I'll use golden raisons ;)

Too funny Caramba...Alissa got the recipe from Shazzie (she's
from England I'm sure you know). I thought I was pretty knowledable about
ingrediants since I have a jillion cookbooks but never heard of
sultanas before. I know what currants are though. :p
Sultanas sound so exotic...
Always learning :D

[vegangelist]

speaking of other euro-speak:

courgette (really it is french) is zucchini

and,

aubergine (again, french) is eggplant

just an fyi,

kristi