One cupful each of molasses, bread crumbs, water, flour and currants and raisins or dates.
When ready for pie thin the mixture with cider or with a glass of tart jelly melted and add seeded raisins or currants and a little brandy if liked.
For spiced currants substitute fresh red currants freed from stems but cook only until the currants are tender as too much boiling makes them hard and tough.
Cool slightly and pour over the currants in preserve kettle.
Currants should be cooked only long enough to let the fruit get tender, as the juice jellies easily anyway, and the currants get hard and tough if cooked too long.
Serve in tall glasses with a few white currants in the bottom of each.
Dip half a pound of lump sugar in the strained juice of some whitecurrants and boil them to the "thread" point.
Take selected red (or white) currants of large size, one by one, carefully make an incision in the skin one fourth of an inch in size, with tiny embroidery scissors.
They have lots of currants in them, those buns, for children that don't squeal.
The old-fashioned way was to squeeze raspberries and currants through a cloth till you had a quart of pure juice, which you then boiled with 4 oz.
A quart of currants and a pound of raspberries should give you a good quart mould.
I was then taken into her dressing-room, and shown a large wash-hand basin full of what looked like myriads of little whitecurrants floating in red-currant juice.
As a rule, the most easily raised vegetables are not to be found in them; and the small fruits, with the exception of currants and gooseberries, are universally neglected.
The row of currants will furnish a daily supply of refreshing fruit to the table for months together.
It was the same thing with currants and gooseberries.
Dried plums, grapes, and currants are a common article of commerce.
The currants are very pleasant to the taste, and much preferable to those of our common garden.
He had been a sailor for many years and now owned his own sloop, in which he sailed over the Mediterranean with cargoes of currants and lemons.
The time of currants is one of the happiest seasons for little Grecian children, for the fruit is delicious and it hangs in great clusters upon the bushes.
Pick the currantsfrom the stalks, and put them into a jar; place this jar in a saucepan of boiling water, and simmer until the juice is well drawn from the fruit, which will be in from ¾ to 1 hour.
Bake it from 1½ to 2 hours, and let the oven be well heated when the cake is first put in, as, if this is not the case, the currants will all sink to the bottom of it.
Currants and cherries preserved whole in this manner, in bunches, are extremely elegant, and have a fine flavour.
Rub the butter into the flour, add the currants and sugar, and mix these ingredients well together.
Currants should be well washed, pressed in a cloth, and placed on a dish before the fire to get thoroughly dry: they should then be picked carefully over, and every piece of grit or stone removed from amongst them.
Select ripe, nice-looking fruit; pick off the stalks, unless currants are used, when they are laid in the jelly as they come from the tree.
These are very nice with a fewcurrants and a little sugar added to the other ingredients, they should be put in after the butter is rubbed in.
Strip the currants from the stalks, which may be done in an expeditious manner, by holding the bunch in one hand, and passing a small silver fork down the currants: they will then readily fall from the stalks.
Let the suet be finely chopped, the raisins stoned, and the currants well washed, picked and dried.
A fewcurrants might be substituted for the caraway seeds when the flavour of the latter is disliked.
Strip the currants from the stalks; weigh one pound of sugar to one pound of fruit, and to every eight pounds of currants put one pound of raspberries, for which you are not to allow any sugar.
Put in a few currants for change, and boil them for half an hour.
Then take ten pounds of currantswashed and dried, and set them to dry before the fire, one pound of citron minced, one pound of orange and lemon-peel together, sliced.
Mash thecurrants and strain them through a thin strainer; to a pint of juice take a pound and a half of sugar and six spoonfuls of water.
Pick the currants from the stalks; bruise them in a marble mortar; run the juice through a flannel bag.
In making jelly or jam, it is an improvement to add to every five pounds of currants one pound of raisins.
Mash red and white currants; strain them through a linen bag; break in as much of the strained currants as will make the juice thick enough of seeds; add some gooseberries boiled in water.
Picking cherries and currants for the neighbors, and the unfailing gardening.
Then he gleaned the raspberries, and filled the saucer with currants that were not salable.
These are promiscuously called white or native currantsin the colony.
Our native currants are strongly acidulous, like the cranberry, and make an excellent preserve when mixed with the raspberry.
The cake has currants in it; and the wheel-thing lying on the sand in front belonged to one of Pharaoh's chariots when he tried to cross the Red Sea.
And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things, and made himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick.
When the currants and gooseberries were quite ripe, grandmamma had a sheep-shearing.
The thought of those currants produced in Mark's mouth a craving for something sweet, and as quietly as possible he stole off downstairs to quench this craving somehow or other if it were only with a lump of sugar.
Fancy having a large red jar crammed full of currants on the floor of the larder and never wanting to eat one!
Currants and gooseberries should be pruned annually and only the one- or two-year-old wood retained for production.
How sorry I am, He ate raspberry jam, And currants that stood on the shelf!
Then by and by I used to sit down and swop currants and sugar which I had "found" at home for some of the nuts and lovely spicy fruits that the Little Green Man had stored away.
But I would know ever so much better, and would have down half-a-dozen Grown-up books that just make your eyes stand out of your head like currants in a ginger-bread bunny.
Boil juice 8 to 20 minutes (berries and currants require less time); add sugar which has been heated in oven; stir until sugar is dissolved and boil about 5 minutes.
Incidents, in a country unreclaimed and almost uninhabited, must necessarily be small and infrequent, like the currants on an Irish cake.
THE currants were ripe, and the gooseberries red, And very few strawberries left on their bed: Sweet blossoms and buds were beginning to shoot, And some were decaying and changing to fruit.
As Joe was at play, Near the cupboard one day, When he thought no one saw but himself, How sorry I am, He ate raspberry jam, And currants that stood on the shelf.
Small currants are good, as far as they go, but the trouble is--they don't go far enough.
Spray with the infusion recommended for currants to prevent injury from worms.
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