SC - Dried currents

[Marisa Herzog]

                      RE>>SC - Dried currents                      5/4/98

<< Raisons of Corinth. ---According to the OED, the term was transferred to
the Ribes fruits, which were introduced into England sometime before 1578,
when they are mentioned by Lyte as the "Beyond sea gooseberry." They were
vulgarly believed to be the source of the dried "raisons of Corinth. Lyte
calls them "Bastard
 currant" and both Gerard and Parkinson protest against the error of calling
them "currants.">>
... 
This also answers the question what were currants called before "currant", I
think-- Gooseberries.
==
But Gooseberries are large (thumbnail sized) and green... so I don't think one
would call currants "gooseberries".  But this leads me to understand that at
least for England "real" currants would be *very* late period?  Duke
Cariadoc... did the OED say where they were introduced to England from? Europe
or New World?
- -brid

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