I can find raisins - but not the other two...
Any ideas?
Anyone know where to get currants and sultanas in Zurich?
Sultanas you find everywhere - Lidl, Migros.... Here for example. Sultaninen.
Raisins - at least labelled as such (rosinen) I think are harder to find. I do feel everything tends to be labelled as Sultaninen regardless - if you pick light coloured and dark coloured "sultaninen" you should have both covered - the "hell" ones I linked to above seem pretty close to UK sultanas, the darker ones more like raisins.
Even in the UK people are not clear on the definition - I found this debate on the subject!
Currents are more fun. You'll probably have to find a Reformhaus that has them (or a British shop). The regular supermarkets don't.
Sultanas
https://www.coop.ch/en/food/sweets-s...%7cP2P_sameCat
https://produkte.migros.ch/bio-sultaninen
https://sortiment.lidl.ch/de/sultaninen-0029814.html
Currants
Related question - dried fruit peel (for mince pies)? Coop have some but it's crazily expensive.
Migros sell both orange and lemon peel (candied and grated) in with their baking produced. They have glace cherries too!
Ex; https://shop.migros.ch/en/direct/product/59422
1.25 per 100g isn't expensive.
Are you in my head? I'm making mince pies too!
You have to go to the bigger Coops and Migros.
The small shops don't have currants (which I assume is "Korinthen").
Also, Reformhouses do stock them, although of course for a price.
But usually, you only need a small amount of them anyway.
My Christstollen requires 125g of currants - on 1.2kg of flour...and I don't need them for anything else, so a pack would last two years.
"Related question - dried fruit peel (for mince pies)? Coop have some but it's crazily expensive"
I was in the Aggarwal Asian Supermarket at Clara in Kleinbasel last week for Indian stuff (they do fab frozen naan and roti) and I bought jars of Robertson's mincemeat to make mince pies for my OH's office at Christmas. I plan to add some brandy to it and make my own butter pastry.
They have a branch in Zurich and another in Bern and sell a fair few British things like Bisto, PG Tips, Colman's Mustard, Horseradish and mint sauces plus good old custard creams and bourbons. Oh and Pataks curry pastes and chutneys
You have to be careful of the frozen onion bhajis and pakoras though, they are hot and deadly
Having just come back from Kaufland - I was glad to see they have mixed candied stuff for 39 eurocents a pack
Bought 10 packs - should last me a while
It depends...
If you are from the U.K. then there's Mince Pies, Christmas Pudding, Christmas cake....
I've got Christmas puddings in my basement from last year that never got eaten. 2 years out of date but that just means they'll be all the more yummy.
We gave them as gifts to OHs colleagues back in 2019. Unfortunately one guy didn't realise 2 people aren't supposed to eat an 8 portion one between them in a sitting and he couldn't understand why him and his GF fell asleep after it. To make matters worse they didn't have any cream so they covered it in Bailey's
Actually - what do people use as moulds? Would love to find the little aluminium disposable trays...
In a somewhat related question (thinking festive whisky sours) anyone know where to get maraschino cherries. I may be missing something, but I haven't found them anywhere.
Baking trays with indentations for mince pies and jam tarts? That's what we have.
Bought some at Globus , but they are sold out on their site. It seems that the Opies is also sold by britshop.ch.
Another brand at Globus (also sold out) is Majestic . I had a jar, but I'm not sure if I bought them at Globus or somewhere else. If it was somewhere else, it would have been Manor or the local beverage store.
Ullrich.ch has cherries as well and they are NOT sold out.
Coop also have those, but I like to make my own from scratch. Probably cheaper at Aggarwal though!
For Christmas pud, Ikea have a ceramic bowl of the right dimensions.
Pyrex do a 16cm bowl that works well.
The problem comes is that for two months, you can't figure out where the hell you put the small mixing bowl!
Thanks for that. I can't enjoy a whisky or amaretto sour without a maraschino cherry!
If you have a topCC card, you can buy a big jar of maraschino cherries at most topCC stores.