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Show 62,000 TONS OF CURRANTS. Britons Seem to Be Exceptionally Fond of This Fruit. Our grcnt-graiidmnthers, although thoy had to pay n vory high prlco ror dried currants, considered them quite indispensable to tho compounding of those pics, furmltlcs nnd Horentlncs which wero tho pride or everv house-wire. house-wire. Domestic catering must huvo been an arduous undertaking In tliosv days, ror currants and other dried rrults were not to he procured out of London except once n year, nt the annual an-nual fair of tho local market town. Tho royal dish of plum porridge, which It was 'tho privilege of the archbishop of Canterbury to servo to a newly crowned sovereign, wns composed largely of currants, tho fruit being stewed In strong boot soup en-ilched en-ilched with red wlno and red sack. Now that tho order has.ehnngod and simplicity Is the keynote' or tho highest high-est class cookeiy, wo Hrltons have trebled our appreciation of the homely home-ly nml wholesome currant; and although al-though Horentlncs and plum porridge nre dishes or the past, no less than CU.OOO tons or currants go evorv year to tho making or bread cakes, pastries and puddings to tempt the I'rillsh appetite. ap-petite. Ladles' Pictorial. |