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Sure as fate, if a 'waur dead beside, we'd ha' curran 'baws i' the pot every day.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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You may make white curran wine the same way, only leave out the rasps.
English Housewifery 2004
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The same receipt will serve for curran wine the same way; let them be red currans.
English Housewifery 2004
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Pick two pounds of currans from the stalks, then take a pound and a half of loaf sugar, and wet it in half a pint of curran juice, put in the berries, and boil them over a slow fire till they are clear; when cold put them in small berry bottles, with a little mutton suet over them.
English Housewifery 2004
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Draw off the juice as for curran jelly, take the weight of the jelly in sugar, boil the sugar to sugar again; then put in the jelly, and keep stirring till the sugar is dissolved; let it be hot, but not boil; then pour it out, and stir it three or four times; when it is near cold drop it on glasses in little cakes, and set them in the stove.
English Housewifery 2004
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Spooks and things is just a curran nonsense, and no sane man wud believe in them.
A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928
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"Dreams is just a curran blethers," said the smith in scorn.
A Dominie in Doubt Alexander Sutherland Neill 1928
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"I wanted something between curran and mask," said Tommy, doggedly, yet almost at the crying.
The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906
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