This recipe is for the double dish slow cooker, which requires water to be placed in the cooking vessel while cooking in the insert pan (like a double boiler). When making in the cooking vessel, no water is needed.
Straw wine. Straw wine, or raisin wine, is a wine made from grapes that have been dried to concentrate their juice. The result is similar to that of the ice wine process, but suitable for warmer climates.
Sultana is a variety of raisins which is known as golden raisins in the United States. The sultanas are made from white seedless grapes. It is indeed produced from the sultana variety of grape. Sultanis and sultanas are the names often used to refer to this type of raisins.Sultanas are chiefly produced in Turkey.ultanas and Currants are two varieties of raisins that have some differences between them. Sultanas are raisins that are found mostly in the continent of Europe. These raisins are said to have come out of the seedless grape.