460 currant recipes

Boiled fruit cake with raisins, currants, mixed fruit, and warm spices like allspice, cloves, and cinnamon. An eggless, no-butter fruit cake thats dense and deeply spiced.

Big-batch Christmas hermit cookies loaded with raisins, currants, chopped nuts, and orange zest, spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg. A chewy, old-fashioned holiday drop cookie that makes 10 dozen.

Old-fashioned boiled fruitcake with raisins and warm spices. Simple one-bowl method where you boil fruit first then fold into spiced flour for incredibly moist cake.

These are the original famous sticky cinnamon buns, similar to those found at the Cinnabon chain of fast food outlets.

Nana Moon's traditional Christmas pudding: brandy-soaked dried fruit, suet and breadcrumbs steamed for hours into a dark, rich pudding, flamed with brandy and served with brandy butter.

Oven-baked five grain pilaf with barley, wheat berries, millet, wild rice, and brown rice, studded with mushrooms, orange-soaked currants, and toasted almonds.

Christmas pudding steams grated carrot and potato with raisins, currants, suet, and warm spice blend into a moist holiday dessert. Serve with brown sugar sauce or custard.

Authentic Victorian mincemeat with boiled calf's tongue, suet, dried fruit, candied citrus peel, brandy, and whiskey. Cures in a crock for 7 weeks before becoming Christmas pie filling. Yields 96 servings.

Rehruecken (saddle of venison cake) bakes a German chocolate-cinnamon sponge in a ribbed loaf mold, splits and fills with currant jelly, then glazes with chocolate and studs with slivered almonds.

Christmas carrot pudding steams grated carrots and potatoes with breadcrumbs, raisins, suet and warm spices into a moist British holiday pudding served with brown sugar sauce.

Fermented mincemeat made with venison or beef tongue, suet, apples, dried fruit, red wine, cider, and brandy. A six-to-eight-week crock cure transforms the ingredients into the deep, boozy filling of old hunting cabin Christmas pies.

Sweet raisin sauce for ham or tongue made with brown sugar, currant jelly, apple cider vinegar, Worcestershire, cloves, and mace. Make-ahead friendly and ready in 20 minutes.

Banana Coconut Bread with rum-soaked currants, warm cinnamon and fresh nutmeg, and sweetened coconut baked into the loaf and crisped on top. A deeply flavored tropical quick bread.

Artichoke spice bread with pureed artichoke hearts, orange juice, currants, and walnuts spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. A uniquely moist quick bread.

Traditional English Banbury cake made with yeasted dough, currants, and warm spices like nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, and mace. A rich, buttery spiced cake from Oxfordshire.

Lots of raisins, currants and candied orange peel give the bread nice and tasty flavor, a classic Irish bread that is served during the holidays!