I’m sure you’re aware that a sultana is a dried seedless raisin type thing and absolutely delicious when included in sticky buns which have been toasted and spread generously with butter and… Sorry, got distracted for a moment there.

The small yellow grape variety which produces these fruit is also called a sultana – as is the wife, mother, daughter or concubine of a sultan.

So a sultana could grow sultanas, dry them to make sultanas and feed these to the rest of the sultan’s sultanas.