Which currant is your favourite?

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Currants come in three colours. Red is mostly used to make red currant jelly for meat, white is eaten fresh and black currants usually end up in jams. Although they can be bought your more likely to be given them by a gardener.

So what's your favourite

DJB72 · Accepted Answer

Blackcurrant for me. I love redcurrant jelly/sauce with lamb but I've not had whitecurrants.

Used to love ribena until they caved to the whole "let's force carcinogenic non-nutritive sweeteners into people to make more diabetics" legislation a few years ago. Not I buy blackcurrants and make my own cordial. I'll be getting a bush soon to grow my own.

JacobJordan · Accepted Answer

I have all 3 and red is perfect for a sweet syrup that you drizzle over ice cream and pie. black is really good to bake into things. white is a bit bitter

EmmaMary · Accepted Answer

@purplepoppy

I must confess that I've never made any jellies or jams in my life... I leave that to my dear Mother and wonderful Mother in Law!

Ironically we actually have both blackberry and blackcurrant bushes down in the lower part of our orchard, which is just left for "the two experts" to pick, and the rest for our wild birds.

FreyaRed · Accepted Answer

Black currant homemade marmalade is the best marmalade. My mother makes strawberry, apricot, peach, blue plum and blackcurrant marmalade every year, so the competition is hard but black currant wins all the time.

PBandJ_Nerd · Answer

I don't think I've ever had currants before. Only taste I got from one is like a rainbow gummy worm, but that's not real. lol

jennifer_bloom · Answer

I am not sure if I have tried all 3 or if I have tried any 2 of the 3. I used to pick berries of neighbourhood bushes as a 5 year old in another city so I am not sure what type of berry I ate but it might have been a red currant and I've had black currant tea and I might have tried the yellow currant once or twice cause my parents used to buy novel fruits for sampling and taste testing from the grocers. I would say my favourite would be the middle white ones.

NathanDavis · Answer

I don't think I've had these before... but I would go with the whites one first and then black, red last

mstbooblover · Answer

All three varieties are fine, but each has different qualities. My preference goes to white currant because its finer and delicate taste and parfume.

musicbrain5 · Answer

I’ve never actually had currants! Come to think of it, I don’t even know if I’ve even seen them in the stores here.

IslaTheWitch · Answer

Black, they have intensive taste and fragrance. My favourite

Iron_Man · Answer

Do you eat them

Cristinaissweet · Answer

I wish I was about to try one

Smoothing · Answer

Black currant has always been my favourite

LavLavLuv · Answer

Black currant

Kathy1111 · Answer

i like black

ThrillSeeker01 · Answer

Red 🍒

HouseMoat · Answer

Never had one

Anonymous · Answer

Black

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