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Sultana is a type of raisin, don't really know the difference, and now do most people. I think technically they are a different type of grape, but wiki seems to think the names can be interchangeable.

PrivateVendetta wrote:

Guys, I found the shit.
And yeah, it was http://www.frysfood.com. Maybe you are right about Arizona, but I went to about 4 stores and only raisins.
It's pretty hard to go around all the stores in the area when I don't know what one is when I drive past it because I've never heard of it.
The reason to make my own it because shop cakes taste like ass, and this cake is a traditional family Christmas cake and you don't let food into the country on planes so I would be missing out if I didn't make it. It's fucking delicious.

Thanks west-phoenix, thats the sort of thing I was looking for, you just came a bit late!

I would think using golden raisins in place of sultanas would work. Currants (I am assuming black currants) would be much harder to find in America outside of an ethnic store. Since you are in lily white (and Mexican) Arizona, you're more than likely out of luck. Best bet would be to order them online.

we have a halal butcher we go to down the street we go to for special occasions, they carry all this stuff

If it's a traditional Christmas/Fruit cake you should have cooked it like 2 months ago and left it to mature.

Also the knowledge of food, and/or availability in America (some states of America) portrayed in this thread is amazingly poor.

Currants are not blackcurrants. They're small dried Black Corinth grapes and look like


Sultanas are larger then currants, usually a golden colour and are a dried yellow grape and look like


Raisins are bigger again and can be golden or black dried from Thomson Seedless or Muscat grapes respectively. (I am assuming the OP is in search of the black raisins as the golden ones are very similar to sultanas)

DrunkFace wrote:

If it's a traditional Christmas/Fruit cake you should have cooked it like 2 months ago and left it to mature.

Also the knowledge of food, and/or availability in America (some states of America) portrayed in this thread is amazingly poor.

Currants are not blackcurrants. They're small dried Black Corinth grapes and look like
http://www.apdf.com.au/images/main/currants.jpg

Sultanas are larger then currants, usually a golden colour and are a dried yellow grape and look like
http://www.apdf.com.au/images/main/sultanas_light.jpg

Raisins are bigger again and can be golden or black dried from Thomson Seedless or Muscat grapes respectively. (I am assuming the OP is in search of the black raisins as the golden ones are very similar to sultanas)
http://static-p4.fotolia.com/jpg/00/11/ … d8XtLZ.jpg

We have a different food culture here. Turkey is on the other side of the planet, why would we be familiar with their food? Turks emigrate to Germany and Finland, not America.