Recipes Featuring Currants
- Mincemeat | 3 lbs meat, boiled & chopped
3 lbs meat, boiled & chopped
4 lbs suet, finely chopped
3 1/2 lbs raisins, stoned & chopped
1 1/2 lbs currants
1/2 lb dried cherries
2 nutmegs, grated
Mace
4 pints white wine
1 pint brandy
4 - Breakfast Straws
1 cup thick, sour milk
1/2 cup dried currants
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
About 2 cups flour & enough to roll
- Mince Pie Without Meat
3 pounds of suet very fine
3 pounds of apples
3 pounds of currants
1 pound of jar raisins
1 pound of loaf sugar
12 ounces of candied orange peel very fine
6 ounces of citron
1/4 ounce of nutmeg - Shortcakes with Stewed Fruit
1 pint flour, sifted
2 Tbsps sugar
1/2 tsp salt
4 tsps baking powder
1/4 cup shortening
3/4 cup milk
Butter
Stewed or canned fruit - peaches, apricots, blackberries or currants
For the merin - Plum Pudding Glacé
1 pint cream or milk
2 Tbsps arrowroot
3 pints milk
3 eggs, well beaten
Sugar
Vanilla bean
1/2 lb cut citron
1/2 lb currants
1/2 lb raisins, cut & seeded
- French Fruit Pudding
1 cup finely chopped suet
1 cup molasses
1 cup sour milk
1 1/2 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon clove
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups raisins, seeded and chopped
3/4 cup currants
- English Plum Pudding I
1/2 pound stale bread crumbs
1 cup scalded milk
1/4 pound sugar
4 eggs
1/2 pound raisins, seeded, cut in pieces, and floured
1/4 pound currants
1/4 pound finely chopped figs
2 ounce finely cut - Fruit Cake | 1 pound sugar (brown)
1 pound sugar (brown)
1 pound butter
12 eggs
1 pound flour
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1 teaspoon each nutmeg and mace
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 cups raisins
4 cups currants
4 cups chopped almonds
4 cu - Queen's Cake | 1 lb flour
1 lb flour
1 lb sugar
1 lb butter
8 eggs, whites & yolks beaten separately
4 ounces cream
4 Tbsp rose water
1 lb currants, washed & dried
- Kohilloop
3-4 pounds of flour
1 quart of milk
8 eggs
1/2 pound of sugar
1 pound of butter
Rose-water
Brandy
Spices
2 spoonful of thick yeast
Small portion of your flour
1/2 pound of currants
