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Home » Fruit » Dried Fruit » Currants

Currants

There are two completely different fruits called Currants which have absolutely nothing to do with each other.The first is the dried fruit that is basically a raisin; it’s made from grapes (see Zante Currants.)

The second is the fresh red, white and black Currants that are in fact berries.

Equivalents

The following applies to the dried fruit type of currants:
1 cup = 6 oz = 175g
2 ¾ cups = 1 pound = 450g
3 tablespoons = 1 oz = 30g

Language Notes

Currants (the raisin kind) traditionally came from Corinth, Greece which shipped small raisins (dried grapes) throughout Europe.

The word “currant” is a corruption of “Corinth”.

Since the berries are about the same size as the raisins, the name currant was applied to them as well starting around the mid 1500s.

Related entries

Other names

Italian: Uva passa di Corinto
French: Groseilles, Raisins de Corinthe
German: Korinthen
Dutch: Krenten
Spanish: Pasas de Corinto

This page first published: Sep 28, 2002 · Updated: Jun 17, 2020.

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