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Scalded muscat raisin

Xaló, La Marina Alta, Alicante

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Scalded muscat raisin

Food and drink · Xaló, La Marina Alta, Alicante

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The moscatel grape is scalded in water with ash lye and laid out in the sun on cane racks until it turns into a raisin. When rain threatened it was gathered in under the riuraus. It was the great comarca export of the nineteenth century and is still made by hand.

Photo: Joanbanjo (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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