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white currant

British  

noun

  1. a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Potato flatbread with spruce sprout pesto and pickled white currant.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

Boughs of cedar, white currant and flowering plum hung in bouquets from its corners, and its lip was decorated with prayer flags.

From New York Times May 25, 2017

I will leave you to talk to him a bit while I open a bottle of our white currant wine to hearten you for your walk home.'

From Lover or Friend by Carey, Rosa Nouchette

Over the runners tall nodding onion-heads showed, and behind them again bushes heavy with white currant.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

When the scum ceases to rise, put in the white currant juice and boil it fast for ten minutes.

From Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches by Leslie, Eliza

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