What is the difference between sultanas,currants and raisins?!
What is the difference between sultanas,currants and raisins?
Answers:
Raisins, the largest of the three, are both white and red grapes, sun-dried (when processed in the original manner) to a golden or dark bronze colour.
'True' sultanas are made from a small number of specific Turkish and Perians varieties of sun-dried white grape. The name derives from the Turkish connection.
Currants are small dried black grapes, the Zante variety being particularly prized. Confusingly, currants were also known in times gone by as 'Corinth Raisins'.
In the US, more confusion lurks, as both sultanas and raisins there are mainly produced from one single grape variety, the Thompson seedless, the flavour and appearance difference between them being arrived at by differening kinds of drying process.