recs for recipes using blackcurrants, besides juice and jam....

[prima]

Have lots of fresh blackcurrants.

Might try this pie: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/gordon_ramsay/article4557470.ece , but would love to hear some other ideas.

or this clafouti: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/che...

Thanks for any of your suggestions.

[Junie D]

Here's a thread from last summer. Sadly, after a big crop last year, I have NONE this summer. Still enjoying last year's liqueur however. Bad year for peaches and nectarines here too.
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/717619

[prima]

Thanks for the link- not sure how I missed that in my search. My blackcurrants were more plentiful and twice as big as they were last year- but my radishes have been brutal.

Hope the rest of your summer fruits are plentiful this year!

[thew]

they would work well with duck, lamb, and any game meat

[prima]

thanks, thew.

[Karl S]

You can probably substitute black currants for a variety of blue/black-skinned fruits with high levels of pectin. THink of them as small black grapes, for example. Or firm early blackberries. Also cranberries and gooseberries (albeit with a switch of color - for the anthocyanins that create purplish colored fruits, recipes would typically avoid alkaline ingredients unless more acidic ingredients are also added)

[prima]

ok, thanks Karl S. Will attempt a blackcurrant clafouti, using one of the recipe links in the current double-thick clafouti thread: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/795386

[sunshine842]

Cassis sorbet is the food of the gods.

Creme de cassis liqueur is nice on its own or added to a glass of white wine (flat or sparkling)

(Cassis is what blackcurrents are called in Europe -- might help you search for more recipes, too)

[prima]

;-) Thanks!

Yep, realize blackcurrants are called cassis in France and the French-speaking parts of Belgium and Switzerland. They're called Johannisbeer in most parts of Germany and some German-speaking parts of Switzerland, Ribiseln in Austria and parts of Bavaria, and have other names in other parts of the EU. Johannisbeersaft is my alltime favourite juice. ;-)

I had googled cassis recipes , as well as Johannisbeer recipes( + rezepte), but I'd love to try some blackcurrant recipes other Chowhounds have already tried out.