Dishes made with currant
8 dishes from around the world that list currant as a main ingredient.
OliebolVegetarian
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 2 moreDutch deep-fried dough balls, often with raisins and dusted with powdered sugar
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Hot cross bunVegetarian
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 moreA sweet, spiced bun with a cross on top, eaten at Easter
Bread, Breakfast, Snacks
Welsh cakeVegetarianpicau ar y maen
🇬🇧 United KingdomRound, spiced cakes cooked on a griddle, filled with currants or sultanas
Sweet or dessert, Tea time, Snacks
Black bunVegetarian
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 1 moreScottish fruit cake wrapped in pastry, shared at New Year
Sweet or dessert
Stuffed musselsFish or seafood
🇹🇷 Turkey and 1 moreMussels filled with herbed rice, sold as street food in Turkey and Armenia
Street food, Snacks
Soul cakeVegetarian
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 moreSpiced small cakes shared during Allhallowtide to honor the dead
Sweet or dessert, Snacks
Saffron bunVegetarian
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 3 moreSweet yeasted bun coloured and flavoured with saffron and dried fruit
Sweet or dessert, Tea time, Snacks
Rock cakeVegetarian
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 2 moreSmall, rough-topped cakes with dried fruit, once popular in wartime Britain
Pie or savoury pastry, Tea time, Snacks
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Hot cross bun: Cjorsch, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Oliebol: El Conejo Blanco, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Welsh cake: Moochocoogle at English Wikipedia, Public domain, source
- Saffron bun: Nenniu, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rock cake: Evan-Amos, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Black bun: IMBJR, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stuffed mussels: Fenerli1978, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Soul cake: Samantha, CC BY 2.0, source