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How to Clean and Prepare Sultana Currants and Raisins for Pastry
Ingredients
Directions
Lay the currants or raisins on a table.
If they are damp, dust a little flour over them to prevent sticking.
Rub them thoroughly to clean.
Use a fine wire sieve to sift them, ensuring none pass through.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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Currant + flourtop 26% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together8,077 recipes
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