European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Duriez family is the last to produce the in earlier the streets of bar Leduc were lined with women pitting Lacques Duriez uses no recipe but Cooks the preserves by As Many As 24 in a single at Chassere is the oldest of the women still cleaning currants in its a Job she has done every july for the past 70 Chassere makes the work look much less arduous than it must she holds a handful of the berries at a Rolls them one by one to her fingers and with a flick of the scrapes the Berry the pits fall neatly into one Small bowl below her the Berry Rolls to her thumb Nail and is flicked into another the process continues at an almost mechanized one Berry every two each Day of each the red juice staining her fingers to the Shade of the Fingernail polish she wears to protect her nails from the berries by the end of the Day she will have cleaned four to six pounds and will have earned perhaps at the rate of per Pound for the about per Pound for the rarer White in Happy the season Only lasts a she Duriez smiles an agreeing she is one of Only 10 women who will still do the he says its a change of habits in this modern labor is More difficult everywhere but it is the change of people move around much More and there is people would rather watch the Duriez factory is a modern Cement Structure that contrasts sharply with the rundown farm buildings on the five Gas burners Roar As the Duriez family begins another production Duriez and his son Are at work Over the bringing sugar to a Frothy Boiu we follow no Duriez its All done by the currants must be added slowly to the boiling sugar at just the Correct the Success of the blend depends on the sugar often reaches temperatures of 200 degrees but the temperature Doest its How the sugar fluffs Duriez we smell it when its boiled together for a few the berries and syrup Are poured into Large Ceramic bowls where do tries wife and a hired woman slowly skim the removing the Cooling scum and seeking out the Odd pit that made it into the we can always Tell from which woman the berries come when it gets to this Duriez the berries cleaned by Chassere Are the currant preserve is not in bar Leduc a Small Jar costs about but the Price is triple that at Fauchon in Paris or at gourmet shops in the United visitors to bar Leduc can Sample the preserve at almost any cafe or served hot Over ice Cream or cold Over a folded Cream dessert called the Duchess of june stripes Magazine