Combine boiling water and salt in a large saucepan. Add noodles and cook until tender, then drain and cool. Toss noodles with butter in the saucepan. Combine poppy-seed filling with vanilla extract, lemon juice and lemon peel and raisins. Add to noodles and mix well. Cook just until heated through. NOTES: * RODZYNKAMI Noodles with Poppy Seed and Raisins -- This recipe could be used as part of a 12-course meal known in Polish as Wigilia, or on its own. Wigilia is eaten after sundown on Christmas Eve. Yield: Serves 4-6. : Difficulty: easy. : Time: 30 minutes. : Precision: Approximate measurement OK. : Original recipe passed down through the generations and translated from Polish into English (with a few mods) by Edward Chrzanowski : MFCF, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada : echrzanowski@watmath.waterloo.edu or {ihnp4,allegra,utzoo}!watmath!echrzanowski : Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust