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red currant
a. The fruit of the Ribes rubrum (see currant, sense 2) or the shrub itself.
b. (See quot. 1898.)
1629[see currant 2]. 1661Rabisha Cookery 37 To make a Made-dish of Apples and Red Currans. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Grossularia, The common red currant,..the great fruited red currant. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 231/1 All these sorts are varieties of one species, ribes rubrum, or common red currant. 1865Sowerby Eng. Bot. IV. 42 In France the Red Currant seems to have been known long before the Gooseberry. 1898Morris Austral Eng. 384/1 Red Currant, another name for the Native Currant of Tasmania, Coprosma nitida.
c. attrib., as red currant cream, red currant jam, red currant jelly, red currant tart, red currant tree, red currant water, red currant wine.
1661Rabisha Cookery 30 To make Red Currans Cream. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. House-kpr. (1778) 211 To make Red Currant Jelly. Ibid. 323 To make Red Currant Wine. 1788J. Woodforde Diary 8 July (1927) III. 36 We had for Dinner to Day some Peas and Beans, a Piggs Face..and black and red currant Tarts. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 231/1 Rubrum, common red-currant tree, &c., hath a shrubby stem. 1861Mrs. Beeton Bk. Househ. Managem. 771 Red-currant jam. 1866J. Blackwood Let. 10 Sept. in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1956) IV. 307 My little boy..declined red currant tart. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 122 Tamarind or red-currant water may be given. 1899Ibid. VI. 148 Frequent hæmoptysis with red⁓currant jelly expectoration. 1958R. Page Let. 11 Oct. in R. McDouall Clubland Cooking (1974) 166 Another member had a weakness for Red Currant and Raspberry Tart. |