“Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues.”

Baking with dried fruit - revisited

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“Raisin cookies that look like chocolate chip cookies are the main reason I have trust issues.”

Well, not me personally, but allegedly my sister Helena who abhors any and all dried fruit. (A parental induced sugar ban when we were children may have motivated our grandmother to show her love for us by practically drowning us in trail mix instead of candy - me and my siblings must have consumed more than a life’s worth of dried fruit during our formative years). Unlike Helena, I actually quite like dried fruit and I also think dried fruit is woefully underrated as a baking ingredient.

But I get it. Dr…