SC - currant sekanjabin (was rose sekanjabin/wa)

[david friedman]

At 2:50 PM -0800 1/30/98, Crystal A. Isaac wrote:

>I've made the current sekanjabin two ways. One method is to get regular
>ole dried currants,...

>For better color and flavor, buy Hero brand Black currant syrup.

It is not clear from this whether Crystal realizes that she is talking
about two entirely different fruits. "Regular old dried currants," aka (in
period cookbooks) "raisins of Corinth," are a small raisin. Black currants
and red currants are a different fruit--the botanical name is "ribes." I
don't know which the period source she has referred to is talking
about--looking at it in the original might help. My dictionary believes the
ribes fruits got called currants because they looked like the other kind of
currants, and the name of the original currant derives from "Corinth."

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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