What is "currants"

Usage examples of "currants".

Jocasta's rum punch was made not only with the usual rum, sugar, and butter but also with dried currants, the whole concoction being mulled with a hot poker.

This means not asking for curry with swede and currants in it and refraining from ordering pints of Winkle's Old Peculiar, do I make myself clear?

I've been forced t' have Nancy in, upo' 'count as Hetty must gether the red currants to-night.

She started when she became conscious that some one was near--started so violently that she dropped the basin with the currants in it, and then, when she saw it was Adam, she turned from pale to deep red.

So he took up the basket of currants once more, and they went on towards the house.

Poyser, as she looked into the basket of currants to see if the fruit was fine, "run upstairs and send Molly down.

Hetty, once more in her own dress, with her neckerchief pushed a little backwards on this warm evening, was seated picking currants near the window, where Adam could see her quite well.

Hetty was moving across the kitchen with the currants, so her uncle did not see the little toss of the head with which she answered him.

I heated water to plump the currants, powered up my kitchen computer, and rummaged in our walk-in refrigerator for unsalted butter.

While the currants were plumping up, I measured dry ingredients into the Hydes' food processor.

The prairie which is situated below our camp is above the high-water level and rich, covered with grass from 5 to 8 feet high, interspersed with copses of hazel, plums, currants, like those of the U.

Great quantities of the red berries, resembling currants, are on the river at every bend.

So, too, are the red and black gooseberries, service-berry, choke-cherry, and the black, yellow, red, and purple currants, which last seems to be a favorite food of the bear.

Having killed two deer, they feasted sumptuously, with a dessert of currants of different colors--two species red, others yellow, deep purple, and black.