SC - Re: Currants vs Zante raisins

[ChannonM at aol.com]

In a message dated 6/18/00 4:45:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Akim Yaroslavich 
writes;

> To clear up the confusion
>  in nomenclature, 17th and 18th century cookbooks called currants
>  ....currants and Corinth "currants"...."raisins of the sun".
>  
>  Akim Yaroslavich

Thank you for the fill in Akim. Do you mind if I include this information in 
the menu and feast document I am preparing? I'll be doing a feast at war for 
TRM's Dag and Elayna, from Platina. I would love to spread the info you give 
me here to those who will get the write up. It is invaluable to understand 
the etymology of the use of the word in period vs modern interpretation. 

Just to clarify; the "dried currants" available in bulk food stores etc, 
really aren't currants, they are as you and Ras have pointed out, Zante 
raisins?

Thanks again

Hauviette