Vicky Day’s Black Currant Jam
Almost No One In the US Grows or Eats Black Currants
ALMOST NOBODY IN THE US grows or eats any black currants to speak of, and yet in Springfield, Vermont, Peter Hingston raises seven acres of them, a total of 14,000 plants. His wife, Vicky Day (a childhood nickname — Day is her middle name), turns the fruit into jam unlike any I’ve encountered before: it tastes like the actual black curra…