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white currant

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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

When baked, place the yellow portion between the two white sheets, binding them together with a little frosting or white currant jelly.

From Science in the Kitchen. by Kellogg, Mrs. E. E.

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.]

The carnation cherries must have red currant jelly; if you have not white currant jelly for the morella, codling jelly will do.

From The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

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