Sublime brown sugar shortbread, rich with orange-liqueur soaked currants, will be a fine addition to your Christmas cookie stock.DARREN STONE Dear Eric: As Christmas baking season is upon us, I am ...

A currant is a different variety of a raisin, right? That's what I thought, mainly because the only currants I ran into were dried and in the Sun-Maid boxes that looked just like small raisins. Wrong.

Back when I worked as a professional baker at La Farine in Rockridge, we made magnificent loaves of Irish soda bread--rich with butter, eggs, sugar, and raisins or even chopped dried apricots--which ...

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A recent H-T food item by the registered dieticians at Bloomington Hospital began with the following sentence: “A currant is a small dried fruit made from Turkish or Greek seedless red grapes.” Pretty ...

Back when I worked as a professional baker at La Farine in Rockridge, we made magnificent loaves of Irish soda bread--rich with butter, eggs, sugar, and raisins or even chopped dried apricots--which ...