"MOM PEAGRAM" > wrote in
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> "Julia Altshuler" > wrote in message
> news:A0Skc.9080$Ik.753826@attbi_s53...
>> Puester wrote:
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>> > Do all butter tarts contain raisins or currants? "Butter tarts"
>> > sound delicious; raisins and currants do not.
>>
>> Look back to the purism part of this thread. Butter tarts have
>> currants. You may make some other sort of tart without them, but a
>> real, true, genuine, make no mistake, butter tart is made with currants.
>> All else is punishable by the Butter Tart God found in this household.
>>
>>
>> --Lia
> And I always thought it was raisins.
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>

I felt the same way about the raisins...until I started soaking them in
cognac or rum to plump them up....makes a big of difference.

15 minutes sitting in a glass of cognac changes everything....even if it is
the raisins sitting.

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Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food
and water.
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FIELDS, W. C.