SC - Haggis and Chips

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- -Poster: Jean Holtom <Snowfire at mail.snet.net>
 
>The 'dried currants' that you find in a box by Sunmaid are most likely NOT
>currants at all. They are Zante raisins or better known in the MA as 'raysons
>of courance' which means raisins of Corinth. These are what is meant in period
>recipes  when they are mentioned not the species 'currant'. Raisons of Corinth
>has mistakenly been translated as raisons of currants by many otherwise
>knowledgeable researchers and authors.
>
>Ras
 
M'lord Ras,  I am a little confused here because I thought currants _were_ 
dried.  How can one have dried currants then? :-) 

I wonder if the currants we use in recipes in Britain also Zante raisins?  
Also, where do sultanas fit into all of this?

Elysant
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