I made hot cross buns tonight.

They have cinnamon and sultanas, nothing fancy. Messed up the lines a bit, but it’s just flour and water so they don’t add to the taste whatsoever.

As dough balls do, they sometimes proof in to weird shapes you don’t expect. 🤷🏻‍♀️ An unevenly heating oven also does not help.

Happy Easter!

  • StickyDangoOPEnglish
    5·
    10 days ago

    Sultanas are dried green grapes, so they’re lighter in colour, whereas raisins are purple (or any dark) grapes. Sultanas are nicer to eat because they’re not as hard, raisins just get stuck in my teeth.

    Sultanas seem to be more common down under.

    Edit: Forgot to say thank you!

    • MurrayLEnglish
      6·
      10 days ago

      There are also currants, just to complicate matters further!

      Per Wikipedia:

      The word raisin is commonly used for the dried dark-colored seedless grape, while sultana is a golden-colored dried grape, and currant is a dried small Black Corinth seedless grape.

      I think there might be some small differences in how they’re produced? But they’re all dried grapes.

      • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
        3·
        10 days ago

        I’ve seen currant lambic beers (maybe I tried one once), sure didn’t know it was another raisin. Didn’t know that the different grapes all got different names once dried. I guess I learned something today. That’s always nice. Thanks.

      • StickyDangoOPEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Probably! I think I’ve only eaten currants in fresh form when they come in frozen mixed fruit bags.