Redcurrant

Groseille

What it is

Bar-le-Duc still makes a jam from redcurrants seeded one berry at a time with a goose quill, a craft recorded since the fourteenth century. A skilled worker manages a few kilos a day, and the jar has always cost accordingly.

In the kitchen

They are loaded with pectin, so a jelly sets with nothing added. Strip them from the stalk with a fork, not your fingers.

Goes with

Cream Vanilla Almond Honey Raspberry Mint Dark chocolate Lemon

Same species

Blackcurrant Blackcurrant buds Blackcurrant leaf Crème de cassis de Dijon Gooseberry White currant

Also used with

Arrowroot starch Ceylon tea Raspberry eau-de-vie Leaf gelatine Sweet cicely Red verjuice

In season alongside

Lingonberry Begonia petals Haskap Cornelian cherry Damson Green Zebra tomato

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