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Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

I also sometimes toss in a weensy handful of raisins. They hold onto their own flavor rather than suffusing anything into the sauce, so you're eating along on spaghetti sauce until you hit a raisin and suddenly here's a sweet note for just this mouthful. Quite nice.

That's one of the great things about Chilean empanadas--that occasional sweet bit of raisin. Then the next bite might have a little salty olive...