currant
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- noun
- /ˈkɜːrənt/
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pasa
- You just had perde pilavi dough filled with rice, chicken, currants, almonds and pine nuts.
- raisins and currants
- dried currants
- cup of currants
Examples
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Add the turnips/parsnips, figs, and currants to the lentils and continue to cook for 10 to 15 minutes or until the lentils are tender.
Blog text (6) -
The poppy seeds had been steeping for fifteen days with ripe apples and dried currants.
Fiction book (2002) -
I also used a combination of golden and regular raisins, although the recipe calls for currants.
Blog text (8) -
Add the chutney, celery, scallions, and currants and mix well.
Blog text (10) -
There were buns made with a sweet yeast dough and filled with jam or studded with currants.
Fiction book (1992) -
The focus of the meal is the mince pie that was created from currants, raisins, and spices from the Middle East and served at special banquets and holidays.
Blog text (32) -
A footman offers eels, caught in the abbey pond next door and baked in a crust with diced onion, ginger, currants, raisins, and vinegar.
Blog text (6) -
I added a handful of currants to the cookie dough for extra sweetness.
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For the cake, I mixed in some currants along with nuts and spices.
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The recipe calls for soaking currants in warm water before adding them to the bread.
Synonyms
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A small sweet dried grape that people eat or use in cooking
Compounds
A North American bush with clusters of red or pink flowers that bloom in early spring
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word currant first named the tiny dried grapes called 'Corinthian raisins' from the Greek city Corinth, so a currant in cooking is literally a small dried grape used in baking.