red currant

noun

any of various currant shrubs of the genus Ribes, bearing an edible, red fruit.
the fruit itself.

First recorded in 1620–30

Pound it in a mortar with some red currant jelly and make up into small cakes with raw eggs.

A wineglassful of port should be added, and a good spoonful of red currant jelly should be dissolved in it.

Strain the vegetables and add them to the stew, with a glass of port wine and two ounces of red currant jelly.

It looked for all the world like a large, red currant fleshy against the wind.

Both require to be well basted, and eaten with red currant jelly, to make them at all palatable.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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