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Currants

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Currants 

small (4—5 mm), seedless, sun-dried grapes cultivated in Greece. Currants contain vitamins, iron, and approximately 65 percent sugar. They are used in the confectionery industry.



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She baked either pies or cake for us every day, unless, for a change, she made my favourite pudding, striped with currants and boiled in a bag.
John was requested to order home a dozen or so of little pots and an extra quantity of sugar, for their own currants were ripe and were to be attended to at once.
On the 26th of May, the travellers encamped at Laramie's Fork, a clear and beautiful stream, rising in the west-southwest, maintaining an average width of twenty yards, and winding through broad meadows abounding in currants and gooseberries, and adorned with groves and clumps of trees.
 
 
 
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