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• 16:12 Anyone else ever have raisins blow up like balloons when baked?

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[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Not like balloons, but raisins should always be visibly plumper after baking than they were when you mixed 'em into your batter/dough/etc. ... they'll happily rehydrate in contact with moisture and the oven heat enhances that. Golden raisins, as they are softer and still retain some of their original moist pulp, will plump up far more than those sad, cheap, overdried dark things that look like dead flies.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

These were the large, dark, evidently not-so-overdried things (Indian grocery, I love you). I swear, they inflated back up to round, though they settled down a bit as they cooled.