A musing on raisins
Well, I haven't ever grown grapes, but buying cookies at a local bakery and talking with our neighbors and their son over for coffee and dessert after lunch this afternoon, had me thinking about raisins.
One of the cookies I'd bought was full of raisins - common enough in North America, of course, but I suddenly thought why raisins in Quebec. (This is not a climate for grapes).
When did they come here and where did they originate, I was wondering?....I'd never thought about the origins of raisins before.
This California raisin site provided some answers to that question: they've been around a long time. I've wondered, too, about why dates are so abundant here in desserts (and cheap, too), but that's a different food story.
There is a native grape here, Vitis riparia, but I'm imagining that it's the European heritage of currants and raisins that has been carried over here in Quebec, in a place prone to sweet and delicious desserts.
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| A "pile" of Sunmaid brand raisins |
One of the cookies I'd bought was full of raisins - common enough in North America, of course, but I suddenly thought why raisins in Quebec. (This is not a climate for grapes).
When did they come here and where did they originate, I was wondering?....I'd never thought about the origins of raisins before.
This California raisin site provided some answers to that question: they've been around a long time. I've wondered, too, about why dates are so abundant here in desserts (and cheap, too), but that's a different food story.
There is a native grape here, Vitis riparia, but I'm imagining that it's the European heritage of currants and raisins that has been carried over here in Quebec, in a place prone to sweet and delicious desserts.
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