The word "raisin" is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to refer to a dried grape, often used as a snack or ingredient in baking. For example: "I added a handful of raisins to my oatmeal cookies for some extra sweetness." "The trail mix was packed with nuts and raisins, making it the perfect on-the-go snack." "I prefer raisins in my cereal over other dried fruits."
Dinner could be jerk pork chop with black beans, followed by local black pineapple, grilled and served with rum and raisin ice-cream.
We bake a range of breads including a seeded loaf, wholewheat, rye, a raisin and nut loaf.
Although machines can do the job almost as well, about half the valley's raisin crop is still picked by hand, dropped into trays, then flipped on to sheets of paper to dry in the sun.Though farmers complain that they cannot get labourers at any price, this back-breaking work is hardly lucrative.
But she sounds reasonably confident that the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 is "the world's most outdated law".Since the 1940s raisin farmers have been obliged to make over a portion of their crop to a government agency called the Raisin Administrative Committee.
It is not just the farmers who suffer: domestic raisin prices are higher than international ones, so consumers are victims too.
But the barminess of the raisin bureaucracy has not escaped the justices.
The rule requires raisin farmers to hand over a share of their crop to the government, which may or may not pay for it.For nearly three decades, Mr Horne and his wife Laura complied.
And if they win, the defendant must pay their costs.In this section Fighting the secret plot to make the world richer A field guide to 2016 Wanted: cops with people skills Dark days A fuel and your money Hobbling businesses The California raisin grab The regulated West ReprintsThis has created a cottage industry of so-called Title III lawsuits against bars, motels and the like.
In this section Fighting the secret plot to make the world richer A field guide to 2016 Wanted: cops with people skills Dark days A fuel and your money Hobbling businesses The California raisin grab The regulated West ReprintsMany Democrats, however, fiercely oppose it.
Mercian is even marketing packets of polyphenol tablets, made from raisin seeds and fruit skins, for ¥4,800 $355) a pop.
