The Organic Market and Café

Currants

$25.50 per kg

Description

Definition: There is often great confusion on the difference between dried fruits used in cooking - the 3 most popular being raisins, sultanas and currants. All three are used extensivley in some traditional cakes and puddings including a Christmas Cake or a Christmas Pudding Raisins are dried white grapes. They are dried to produce a dark, sweet fruit. The grapes used are usually Muscatel. Sultanas are also dried white grapes but from seedless varieties. They are golden in color and tend to be plumper, sweeter and juicier than other raisins. Currants are dried, dark red, seedless grapes. They are dried to produce a black, tiny shrivelled, flavour-packed the grapes were originally cultivated in the south of Greece, and the name currant comes from the ancient city of 'Corinth'.