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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

> Then I heat gently, stirring a little and mashing them a bit with the back of 
> a plastic cooking spoon until the currants are sort of white and 
> muddy-looking, and collapse.


Thanks, Ginda. I worried about cooking them to remove the juice, because 
my mom told me that the sauce she tried to make turned out horribly - 
completely inedible. So I wondered if the juice had to be removed from 
the seeds without, or before, cooking. (I think she was using either red 
or pink currents, if that makes a difference.)

Then again, she did make a pie with them, and that was... OK. It wasn't 
particularly good, but it didn't seem like cooking the seeds was a 
problem there.

Thanks again,

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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