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Currant

noun
1.
Any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams.
2.
Any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants.  Synonym: currant bush.
3.
Small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking.



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"Currant" Quotes from Famous Books



... and dainties compounded with milk, belong in England to the May festival. In Germany there is a "May drink" (said to be very nice) made by putting woodruff into white Rhine wine, in the proportion of a handful to a quart. Black currant, balm, or peppermint leaves are sometimes ...
— Miscellanea • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... Dickensonian dishes that he proposed to explore, dishes whose very names would make a wooden Indian's mouth water. But when he got there the cupboard was bare. England was going on rations. Fats were scarce, sugars were rare, starches were controlled by the food board. And who could make a currant tart without these? He dropped two bullet-sized brown biscuits with a hazelnut of butter under his vest the first three minutes of our first breakfast and asked for another round, after he had ...
— The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me • William Allen White
... softness his kindly countenance, "that reminds me of old days. Many a time have I written out in my copybook, 'Take care of your Neighbour's Pence, and your own Pounds will Take Care of Themselves.' 'Borrow an Umbrella, and put it away for a Rainy Day.' 'Half a Currant Bun is better than No Bread'; 'A Bird in a Pigeon Pie is better than three in the Bush.' Got heaps of copy-books filled with these and similar words of wisdom. HOWARD VINCENT is quite right. If there was more of this in our elementary schools, there would be, if I may say so, more men like ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 21, 1891 • Various
... hare was tender, and when a pot of red-currant jelly produced itself, seemingly from nowhere, it was quite ...
— Fairy Tales from the German Forests • Margaret Arndt
... her in continual dread of dreadful punishments, and so making her suffer day and night. She made her go barefooted into the garden on the coldest mornings to fetch her a flower, or she kept her whole hours with her head in the sun to keep the birds from picking at a currant bush. She made her sleep on the ground by the side of her bed, when she sent her several times down into the kitchen for water. She reduced her to eating food she knew she did not like, and deprived her of ...
— The Grandee • Armando Palacio Valds


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