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Definition of Currants
1. currant [n] - See also: currant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Currants
Literary usage of Currants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1896)
"Such knowledge as they did possess appears to have been acquired in the course
of dealing in dried fruits and by reason of importations made of currants, ..."
2. Sketch of the Evolution of Our Native Fruits by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898)
"Native currants Of many species of wild currants in North America, ... The common
red and white currants are offspring of Ribes rubrum of the Old World; ..."
3. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"Preserved currants. Take ripe currants, in their prime; strip them off their
stems, rejecting the bad ones ; make a sirup of sugar and very little water ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"The highest yield of black currants was obtained in 1905, when six bushes of Kerry
... Red and white currants. The red currant makes excellent jelly, ..."
5. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1886)
"bank, and that he unlawfully converted them to his own use with °- 9° *' intent
to defraud. to wit, 500 half barrels of currants and 580 cases of currants ..."
6. General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of by John Sinclair (1814)
"FROM the demand for currants, the cultivation of that fruit has become a ...
The foil in which currants produce molt fruit and of beft quality, is a rich, ..."
7. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"To keep currants. The bottles being perfectly clean and dry, let the currants
... currants may be scalded, as directed for gooseberries, the first method. ..."
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