Canada is a nation divided! Do raisins belong in butter tarts

[Anna N]

The great debate.

[Tri2Cook]

I'm not gonna say raisins don't belong in butter tarts, I'm just gonna say they don't belong in my butter tarts. I'm not gonna tell anybody else what to put in their butter tarts. 

[teonzo]

I thought they called for currants...

 

 

 

Teo

 

[gfweb]

raisins in pastry is an abomination

[TicTac]

Raisins....walnuts....

 

All welcome to be embraced by that golden sugary gooey deliciousness!

 

 

[ElsieD]

If you must put raisins in my butter tarts, please don't use more than three.  I'd prefer none.  I do, though, find that pecans or walnuts have a happy home in that lucious filling.  I love butter tarts.

[chromedome]

I can see I'm in the minority, but butter tarts just aren't...right...without raisins.

 

Neither are oatmeal cookies, though I can enjoy them plain or with chopped dates if needs must. Chocolate simply doesn't belong.

[Anna N]

1 hour ago, teonzo said:

I thought they called for currants...

 

 

 

Teo

 

I am willing to bet, even though I love my fellow countrypersons, that only two in 10 would know what a currant is when it doesn’t relate to the Great Lakes or the St. Lawrence Seaway.  Spelling aside.

Edited September 14, 2019 by Anna N
Edited to make it more clear that I know the difference between current and currant. (log)

[ElsieD]

5 minutes ago, Anna N said:

I am willing to bet, even though I love my fellow countrypersons, that only two in 10 would know what a currant is when it doesn’t relate to the Great Lakes or the St. Lawrence Seaway.  Spelling aside.

 

I'm one of the two.  I have some in my pantry.

[lindag]

18 minutes ago, ElsieD said:

I'm one of the two.  I have some in my pantry.

Me as well, I always have them on hand.

[Darienne]

I have both raisins and currants in my storage bins but I loathe Butter Tarts from the get-go.  I could just say that they are too sweet for my taste...but honestly I find them sickeningly sweet and they make my teeth call out "NO!". 

[Anna N]

1 hour ago, ElsieD said:

I'm one of the two.  I have some in my pantry.

Yeah, we are unique subset of the population.

[lindag]

Primarily why I keep them on hand is for making Irish Soda Bread; KAF has a recipe to die for.

I make it often, not just for St. Patrick's Day.

Recipe.

[teonzo]

6 hours ago, Anna N said:

I am willing to bet, even though I love my fellow countrypersons, that only two in 10 would know what a currant is when it doesn’t relate to the Great Lakes or the St. Lawrence Seaway.  Spelling aside.

 

So I can troll only the US people about raisins/currants?

 

 

 

Teo

 

[TicTac]

6 hours ago, Anna N said:

I am willing to bet, even though I love my fellow countrypersons, that only two in 10 would know what a currant is when it doesn’t relate to the Great Lakes or the St. Lawrence Seaway.  Spelling aside.

 

I think you might lose that bet

 

 

[Tri2Cook]

11 hours ago, teonzo said:

I thought they called for currants...

 

 

 

Teo

 

Raisin's uptown cousins... in most raisin-oriented baking projects, the subtle differences tend to be lost and it's just mini raisins. If I'm going to bother with raisins, I prefer the golden raisins over regular raisins and dried currants. That little bit of tartness they tend to hold on to makes a big difference in raisin enjoyment for me. Just a little more tartness would make them even better.

[ElsieD]

6 minutes ago, Tri2Cook said:

Raisin's uptown cousins... in most raisin-oriented baking projects, the subtle differences tend to be lost and it's just mini raisins. If I'm going to bother with raisins, I prefer the golden raisins over regular raisins and dried currants. That little bit of tartness they tend to hold on to makes a big difference in raisin enjoyment for me. Just a little more tartness would make them even better.

 

Interesting you would say that about raisins.  I never get the dark raisins either as I prefer the yellow ones.

[DesertTinker]

1 hour ago, Tri2Cook said:

Raisin's uptown cousins... in most raisin-oriented baking projects, the subtle differences tend to be lost and it's just mini raisins. If I'm going to bother with raisins, I prefer the golden raisins over regular raisins and dried currants. That little bit of tartness they tend to hold on to makes a big difference in raisin enjoyment for me. Just a little more tartness would make them even better.

So, would chopped dried cranberries , aka craisins, be a close currant substitute?

[gfweb]

11 minutes ago, DesertTinker said:

So, would chopped dried cranberries , aka craisins, be a close currant substitute?

Except they are good and don’t taste like raisins. 

[DesertTinker]

7 minutes ago, gfweb said:

Except they are good and don’t taste like raisins. 

Neither does a dried cranberry. I was thinking they might be too tart to sub for a currant.

[gfweb]

Just now, DesertTinker said:

Neither does a dried cranberry. I was thinking they might be too tart to sub for a currant.

I was speaking of crazins

 

[pastrygirl]

I’m not Canadian and have never had a butter tart. Raisins would interfere with my wanting a butter tart under ordinary circumstances, but if I had an opportunity to become Canadian that required choking down a few raisins, I’d manage. 

[Anna N]

5 hours ago, pastrygirl said:

but if I had an opportunity to become Canadian that required choking down a few raisins, I’d manage. 

 But you would have to do it politely.

[Anna N]

8 hours ago, DesertTinker said:

So, would chopped dried cranberries , aka craisins, be a close currant substitute?

 Not in my world.😂

[Margaret Pilgrim]

16 hours ago, DesertTinker said:

So, would chopped dried cranberries , aka craisins, be a close currant substitute?

if you can get natural ones.   But the commercial (OceanSpray et al) are REALLY sweet.    As in aaarrrggghhhh sweet.