Currant Preserves Dusting Powder | Talc-Free Body & Linen Powder with Honey-Spiced Red Currant
Field No. 123 — Currant PreserveBotanical icon: Goldenrod & Clover Bundle · Collection: Honeyed & HearthSoftly scented. Nostalgically Made. Rooted in the Stillroom Tradition. The currant bushes bend under the weight of bright red berries, fingers stained as baskets fill in the high summer sun. Chuck and I make a day of it—berry picking, a picnic by the water, sometimes a line cast for fish—before heading home with our baskets heavy. In the kitchen, the fruit is sugared and stirred down into gleaming jam, filling the room with a fragrance that clings to aprons and wooden spoons. Jars line the counter to cool, but never the common screw-top kind; only the special Weck jars with their neat glass lids and clip fasteners leave this house. Everyone knows them, and when a jar comes back empty, I trade it for a full one—a quiet barter of sweetness, summer preserved for family and friends who wait for the first spoonful of ruby jam spread thick on bread.Currant Preserves gathers that m