Show 62000 TONS OF CURRANTS Britons Seem to Be Exceptionally Fond of This Fruit Our greatgrandrnothers although they had to pay a very high price for dried currants considered them quite Indispensable to the compounding cf those pies furmltles and tlorentlnea which wero the pride of every housewife house-wife Domestic catering must have been an arduous undertaking In those days for currants and other dried fruits wero not to be procured out of London except once a year at the annual an-nual fair of tho local market town Tho royal dish of plum pOI ridge which it was tho privilege of the archbishop of Canterbury to serve to a newly crowned sovereign was composed largely of currants tho fruit being stewed In strong beef soup enriched en-riched with red wine and red sack Now that tho order has changed and simplicity is the keynote of the highest high-est class cookery I we BrItons have trebled olir appreciation of tho homely home-ly and wholesome currant and although al-though florentlnes and plum porridge 1 are dishes of the past no less than 62000 tons of currants go every year to the making of bread cakes pastries and puddings to tempt the Pritish appetite ap-petite Ladles Pictorial |