That would be a small grape called the Zante currant, which originated in the ancient Greek city of Corinth. For hundreds of years it was considered Greeces most treasured export. But its only ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Makes 8 scones. Ingredients 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 4 tablespoons sugar 6 ...

Q: Currants seem impossible to find, even during the holidays. I found Sun-Maid at Walmart several years ago, and two years ago got bulk currants at Fresh Market. I can order them in a four-pack from ...

What about the “Zante” currants? How did we all get bamboozled into thinking they were the real thing? No fault of ours — Quinn has cleared up that misconception, “The real story is when the Greeks ...

According to Wikipedia, the word scone may come from the Middle Dutch word for “fine white bread.” Given all the dense, dry, indigestible scones I’ve tasted in this country, the word scone might as ...

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 ...

Like Wall Street bankers and Chinese Internet censors, currants have an image problem. Are they berries? Are they raisins? Are they red or black? Are they edible fresh? Consider this their ...

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.