Show TONS OF britons seem to be exceptionally fond of this fruit our great grandmothers although they had to pay a very high price for dried currants considered them quite indispensable to the compounding ft those pies and which were the pride of every house wife domestic catering must have been an arduous undertaking in thosa days tor currants and other dried fruits were not to be procured out of I 1 ondon except once a year at the an nual fair of the local market town the royal dish 0 plum which it was the privilege of the archbishop of canterbury to serve to a newly crowned sovereign wa composed largely ot currants the fruit being stewed in strong beef soup en riched with red wine and red sack now that the order has changed and simplicity Is the keynote of the high est class cookery we britons hav trebled our of the home ly and wholesome currant ani al though and plum porridge are dishes of the past no less than ia tons of currants go every year to the making of bread cakes pastries and puddings to tempt tl e british ap petite ladles pictorial |