Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1874 — The Red Currant. [ARTICLE]

The Red Currant.

Nex to the apple, for every-day wear,, cuffis the red currant. They are allmost az necessary and common for sweet-meats in all well regulated familys az hash iz for brekfasst. They grow on a low hush, and they gro thik that yu couldn’t stik another one on without knocking off two. They are about the size ov a dubble i?' shot, and when they are ripe they are az red az the eye of a M'ild pigeon. They are az sour az the blood ov a lemon, but plenty of wffiite sugar cures them ov this malady. One pint ov ripe currants for teav well pikt over and washed off gently with ice water, and mixt up with about az mutchlite brown sugar az thare iz currants, are just about az free from guile az any; nourishment i.kno ov. ■ . Currants are good green, half ripe, or dead ripe, and are cheaper than herring, and a good deal freer from bones. Currants make a.good pi too, and. the man who liaint et them mutch, and often, haz lived a good deal in vain, Ripe currants, rite opli from, the bush are az healthy to eat az lice iz, and the man who don’t- luv them, either raM r or cooked, iz no gentleman. Thare iz a grate menny things i had rather do, in a hot day, tlian/to pik currants, but i have dun it all day,, when i ; waz a boy, and got a nine pence at night for the job,. I am more than haff a century oldi noM’, but i kan look bak, andi remember just how bright and how big one ov them ninepences used to be. A hundred dollars now ain’t haff s©> mutch munny az they waz then. I M’ish i waz a boy again, and knu. ov life what i kno now, iM ould bind myself, if i could allwuss be a., boy, to pik currants for a nine-pence a day, az long az the currants held out. Currant jelly iz another smart thing that currants can do. This delikasy iz az well known az the 10 commandments, and iz a good deal better relished bi menny folks. —Josh Billings , in N. T. Weekly.