SC - Dried Currants
snowfire at mail.snet.net
snowfire at mail.snet.net
Fri Feb 26 15:56:12 PST 1999
- -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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