Currants
Jerry, I don’t remember hearing about currants until the past few years when some restaurants began to offer black currant iced tea. We had different types of strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and very early on gooseberries. My only memory of gooseberries is that they were very small and pale green and my mother took a big pan of them along during rehearsal for the Children’s Day play at our little country church. My impression was that it was a tedious job–don’t know if it was removing stems or seeds or both–and she used that time to do it. There is one company based in Oregon that features a few canned fruits. I have the mental image of a plum on one of their cans. They used to have rhubarb but haven’t for years. That doesn’t explain what happened to currants unless there was some sort of blight. If someone comes up with a test that they have a lot of antioxidants they’ll be popular again.
Candace