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- noun Plural form of
currant .
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The lower layer contains a mix of brown and jasmine rice with egg furikake and black sesame, handpicked raspberries and red currants from the garden.
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The pioneering published work on narrativity and oral history in Africa was Elizabeth Tonkin, Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), where she argued that professional historians who use the recollections of others cannot just scan them for useful facts to pick out, like currants from a cake.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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A recipe to be repeated - an excellent combination of flavours and the currants are a winning component of this dish.
Eggplant Involtini Haalo 2006
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A recipe to be repeated - an excellent combination of flavours and the currants are a winning component of this dish.
Archive 2006-07-01 Haalo 2006
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"currants" -- fruit, and iron ore from Ergasteria.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Use very little water for juicy fruits, such as currants and raspberries, -- _1 cupful of water to 4 or 5 quarts of fruit_.
School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
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Bush fruits, such as currants and gooseberries, are frequently propagated by stem cuttings, as in the case of roses.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Any kind of fresh fruit, such as currants, cherries, gooseberries, all kinds of plums, &c.; wide-mouthed glass bottles, new corks to fit them tightly.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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Any kind of fresh fruit, such as currants, cherries, gooseberries, all kinds of plums, &c.; wide-mouthed glass bottles, new corks to fit them tightly.
The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861
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As the season advanced, the party found many delicious wild fruits, such as currants, plums, raspberries, wild apples, and vast quantities of mulberries.
First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6 1805
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