Name: How to Stone Raisins
Ingredients: raisins; boiling water

How to Stone Raisins

Ingredients

raisins
boiling water

Directions

Remove the raisins from their stems and place them in a bowl.
Cover the raisins with boiling water and let them stand for 2 minutes.
Pour off the water and open the raisins to remove the seeds quickly, avoiding stickiness.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.