SC - Dried Currants

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/26/99 8:36:21 AM Eastern Standard Time,
lainie at gladstone.uoregon.edu writes:

<< Delicious
 though. Definitely an improvement on the things that Sun Maid puts in a
 cardboard box. >>

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
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