Like their red relatives, white currants are popular garden plants, but their fruits are sweeter.

This soft fruit is often processed to jam and jelly. A costly speciality is the Bar-le-duc or Lorraine jelly from Bar-le-duc (France): for this currant jam, all seeds are carefully removed from the fruit with a quill without causing great damage to the fruit. Then the deseeded berries are given in boiling syrup.

The famous Linzer torte is also traditionally filled with “ribisel” jelly or “ribisel” jam. Furthermore, white currants are processed to fruit soups and summer pudding, juice and ice cream.

• Edible Fruits
• Type of Fruit Berry
• Culinary Group Soft fruits
• Taste sweet
• Trivial Names Garten-Johannisbeere, Weiße Johannisbeere, Weiße Ribisel, White currant, Groseillier à grappes
• Size (Fruit) 6 mm
• Taxonomy Grossulariaceae (gooseberry family) Ribes rubrum var. alba, Syn. Ribes sylvestre
• Origin Europe (Northern Central Europe) (Map)
• Fundort Hausgarten Nordrhein-Westfalen 2016