SC - Re: currants
Christina van Tets
cjvt at hotmail.com
Mon Jun 19 06:19:35 PDT 2000
Hello the List!
Akim Yaroslavich explained:
>What are marked as "currants" like
>"Zante" currants by Sun Maid are not currants at all. These
>raisins are made from a very tiny varietal of black grapes originally
>grown in the vicinity of Corinth, or "Corinth grapes". Botanically
>genuine currants come in white, red or black but you can not
>make raisins from them. They have too high a water to flesh
>ratio and are primarily seen only as a jelly product and only rarely
>fresh.
Ooh, and wine... Fresh they're lovely, especially in summer pudding.
To my knowledge, these Corinth grapes are what have
>been used throughout the medieval and Renaissance period
>in recipes calling for "currants". ((snip))
>To clear up the confusion
>in nomenclature, 17th and 18th century cookbooks called currants
>....currants and Corinth "currants"...."raisins of the sun".
Then again, isn't Zante an island fairly close to Corinth, or has my brain
gone wandering again?
Cairistiona
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