Dense, crusty, but soft, salty from the baking
soda, with
pops of
sweet from the raisins, warmed and slathered with a dollop of butter.
I bought medium oval galvanized buckets (from local hardware store, or feed store) and filled them with bag of mesquite, three varieties of b - bq sauce, dish towels, salsa, bags of homemade carmelized pecans for salad topping, and i used a burlap bag underneath to showcase it all (with newspaper to «fluff» it up underneath) we even put in a bag of tri-tip, a few intersting bottles of
soda pop and
sweet treats nestled in and around the other goodies.