Raisins

I am baking muffins tonight and realized that the only fruit with a different name when dried is a grape. If you dry a cranberry it's a dried cranberry. An apricot is a dried apricot. Same for a banana, or an apple or a currant. But not a grape. When dried it's called a raisin. Doesn't give any clue why in the dictionary, maybe you know.

On the muffin menu tonight are cranberry/raisin bran muffins and oatmeal raisin muffins. I baked carrot/pineapple/rhubarb bran muffins a day or so ago. I hate sweet muffins so I drop the sugar, or most of it, and add fruit and molasses.

By the way if you ever have a muffin at Tim Hortons notice how they all taste the same, no matter what type you get. None of that nonsense at Tommy's where the muffins are always tasty.

Pa