Dried Fruit

[Frosty]

  From which are sultanas, raisins and currants

[Sproutstick]

I am presuming you mean "From which fruit do sultanas, raisins and currant originate from?" - if so the answer is grapes.  The variety of grape (white, black etc) and how it is dried (using what methods) determines whether sultana, raisin or currant is the final product.

 

Hope this helps???  :)

[New Forester]

"Currants" in this sense should not be confused with currants...

 

Red currant and black currant are a type of soft-fruit bush closely related to gooseberry (they are all in the genus Ribes -- whence the name of the blackcurrant drink Ribena).  White currant is a variety of red currant, and the familiar garden flowering shrub (flowering currant) is also related, but rarely fruits in the UK.  The berries are eaten fresh or cooked, but not usually dried (though no doubt they would dry nicely).

 

However, as Sproutstick says the dried currants you buy are not true currants at all but small raisins -- grapes are unrelated to true currants.

 

It's a bit like bought "shrimps" actually being small prawns, while proper shrimps have to be sold as "brown shrimps".

 

[New Forester]

Sproutstick -  I like your appropriate use of colour -- if only I'd noticed in time I could have said red, white and black currants, and of course gooseberries...

[Sproutstick]

Ha, ha thanks!!!

 

Sproutstick

[New Forester]

Not forgetting shrimps and prawns