I love it when someone visiting one of my other blogs asks what a particular word means - it gives me a ready made excuse to put the word on this blog.
Kris, visiting my recipe blog, asked what a sultana was, so here we go....

A sultana is a type of white, seedless grape of Turkish, Greek or Iranian origin. Sultanas are used in wine-making and are popularly used in cooking (at least in the UK) in puddings, cakes, breakfast cereals etc — including Sultana Bran (equivalent to the American Raisin Bran).
The name and origin can be traced back to the Ottoman Empire and the ‘Sultans’ who introduced it to the English-speaking world.