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On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:41:15 GMT, (Seppo
Sipilä) wrote:

>Hi all, I'm translating Roald Dahl's memoirs and got stuck with
>"currant cake". As "currant" has two meanings (berries and raisins), I
>don't know which one is correct.
>
>He's telling about his childhood in an English boarding school in the
>1920's (St Peter's in Weston-super-Mare), and currant cake is
>something that mothers would send in the mail to their sons. So...
>berries or "raisins of Corinth"?

I'd go with the raisins, since it makes sense that they would be in a
cake that needed to travel well.

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