Day before prep, fill small container with raisins, then just cover with sherry and cover. Every few hours or so, top-up, keeping raisins just covered with sherry. Raisins will finish reconstituting after 12 hours or so.
Do some experimenting with other clear liqueurs, my personal fave is Frangelico.
Sultana raisins in cake, especially fruit cake, adds another flavour to an otherwise dense cake. Also, they release the liquid you soaked them in before hand, so if you want a rum-cake, soak the raisins in rum overnight.
Ladybugs eat aphids and not raisins.
Gin-soaked raisins are said to be good for arthritis. Purchase a box of golden raisins. Pour gin over the raisins until they reach the top. Let them soak for 10-14 days until the liquid is gone.
i have heard that if you soak them in baking soda that might help.
soak in cold water.
try baking soda with vinegar for a soak.
Soak them overnight in water and baking soda.
Raisins will become larger when soaked in any kind of solution, salt or otherwise. They are dehydrated grapes, so when introduced into a moisture-rich environment, they tend to soak up as much as they can.
Sliced grapes, or soak raisins in water until plump. Wet paper towel for water.
Soak the gunk in white vinegar for an hour, scruba little, and dump it out WITHOUT RINSING.Then, soak it in a baking soda paste (baking soda and water) for an hour, scrub a little, and dump it out WITHOUT RINSING.Repeat until clean.
Feed it only raisins and give it a fabric bed and also soak the raisins for 5 mins. then cut them. then you take a cotton ball and soak in water for 2 mins. and keep all that stuffses in a cage and keep the ladybug there. OH and put a leaf for them to lay eggs under. p.s. most of this is fake well only the fabric bed part
My husband just talked with a middle aged man that found this combination to help him immensely with rheumatism. Two cups of rum, raisins until rum just tops the raisins, soak for one week, drain the rum off and take 10 raisins a day. He is a Trapper which forces him to be quite active and says that it really works.