Beat the butter to a thick cream, strew in, by degrees, the sugar, and mix both these well together; then dredge the flour in gradually, add the currants, and moisten with the eggs, which should be well beaten.

Stone and cut up the raisins, but do not chop them; wash and dry the currants, and cut the candied peel into thin slices.

When he had stalked along through the currant bushes, he half turned his face; she was walking demurely behind him, and he made a pretext of picking a currant to give her a chance to come abreast.

In December, the principal household duty lies in preparing for the creature comforts of those near and dear to us, so as to meet old Christmas with a happy face, a contented mind, and a full larder; and in stoning the plums, washing the currants, cutting the citron, beating the eggs, and MIXING THE PUDDING, a housewife is not unworthily greeting the genial season of all good things.

Mix the baking-powder with the flour; then rub in the butter and lard; have ready the currants, washed, picked, and dried the raisins stoned and cut into small pieces (not chopped), and the peel cut into neat slices.

Cut the peel into thin slices, and place these in a fanciful device at the bottom of the mould, and fill in the spaces between with currants and sultanas; then add a few slices of sponge cake or French roll; drop a few drops of melted butter on these, and between each layer sprinkle a few currants.

Then strain the currants through a fine cloth or jelly-bag; do not squeeze them too much, or the jelly will not be clear, and put the juice into a very clean preserving-pan, with the sugar.

But one of those plates held red currants, and was covered with a red rose; the other held white currants, and was covered with a white rose.

Muskwa liked the black currants best of all.

Then mix in lightly the currants, almonds, and candied peel with the wine and brandy; and having lined a hoop with buttered paper, fill it with the mixture, and bake the cake in a tolerably quick oven, taking care, however, not to burn it: to prevent this, the top of it may be covered with a sheet of paper.

Lay them to dry on paper, when the sugar will crystallize round each currant, and have a very pretty effect.

I would plant a great many currants; the fruit is good, and they make a pretty sweetmeat.

Cultivation has produced white currants from the red, and in a distinct species of the fruit grown in Northern Europe and Russia, the currants are black or yellow.

ZANTE (15), one of the Ionian Islands, 9 m. off the NW. coast of the Morea, is 24 m. long and 12 broad; raises currants, the produce of a dwarf vine, and exports large quantities annually.

May be varied by substituting currants, sultanas, or chopped "Fruitarian" cake for the stoned raisins.

Stone the raisins, pick the sultanas, and rub the currants in a cloth to remove stalks.

I suggested some currants for sauce, especially as they had no apple-trees set out, and showed how easily they could be obtained.

Strip carefully from the stems some quite ripe currants, put them into a preserving pan, stir them gently over a clear fire until the juice flows freely from them, then squeeze the currants and strain the juice through a folded muslin or jelly bag; pour it into a preserving pan, adding, as it boils, white sugar, in the proportion of one pound of sugar to one pint of juice.

Spread thickly with soft butter, dust with one teaspoon of flour, four tablespoons of granulated sugar, one teaspoon of cinnamon; sprinkle over one-half cup each of seeded and cut raisins, chopped citron, and cleaned currants.

Let the fruit be gathered on a fine day; weigh it, and then strip the currants from the stalks; put them into a preserving-pan with sugar in the above proportion; stir them, and boil them for about 3/4 hour.

The best news of the day is that there will be an ample supply of currants for Whitsuntide school-treats, and Smith minor's translation of "Non cuivis homini contingit adire Corinthum" as "Not everyone is lucky enough to find a currant in his war-bun" will no longer be applicable.

I know they were talking about getting some currants and raisins from on board ship, and there will be plum-duff and all sorts of things.

She adjusted a gooseberry which seemed inclined to tumble, heaped up the currants into more graceful pyramids.