On 2018-12-20 10:49 a.m., l not -l wrote:
> On 20-Dec-2018, wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, December 20, 2018 at 10:04:39 AM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>>> On 2018-12-20 4:21 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday, December 19, 2018 at 8:46:05 PM UTC-5, graham wrote:
>>>>> On 2018-12-19 4:29 p.m., wrote:
>>>>>> On Tuesday, December 18, 2018 at 5:39:11 PM UTC-6, graham wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You line a basin with bread slices and
>>>>>>> fill with soft fruit. Several recipes and illustrations he
>>>>>>> http://tiny.cc/xrpt1y
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It really is worth making!!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ok, I've seen this before but had no idea what it was called. I
>>>>>> could go
>>>>>> for the fruit, sans blackberries and the soggy bread.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I can assure you that if you make it, you will be won over. You don't
>>>>> have to include blackberries. The classic version is raspberries with
>>>>> smaller amounts of redcurrants and blackcurrants. Soggy bread?
>>>>> NAH!!!!!
>>>>
>>>> I suppose I could check the farmer's market for redcurrants. Other
>>>> than
>>>> that, I wouldn't know where to begin to find them.
>>>>
>>>> Cindy Hamilton
>>>>
>>> Well it is a Summer treat:-)
>>
>> I wouldn't begin to know where to find them in the summer.
>> Currants are not very popular in most of the U.S.
> I noticed them in the supermarket produce department here (STL suburb) last
> week, near the prunes, apricots and other dried fruit. This is the only
> time of the year I see them in the regular supermarket; they are available
> all year at the international grocer.
>
But they are NOT black- or redcurrants! Their name is a corruption of
"Raisins de Corinthe", i.e., a dried, black grape.