New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-12
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PRESERVING BY THE FRENCH METHOD.

PRESERVING BY THE FRENCH METHOD.
THE ABUNDANT SUPPLY or FRUIT LENGrBENInd
THE SEASON FOR PRrsERvINd-THE FRENCH
MrlHoD-HOw TO SERVE SPANISH MACkEREL~
SATURDAYS PRICES IN THE MARKETS
The supply of fruit this season has been UMPIRE
cedentedy large, and even as late rs the l2th OF
September seems to be for canning peaches, that de-
licions fruit is still choap that housekeepers can
now do their preserving for winter without much
greater expense than is incurred in other
wears Plums are also 10 be found great quantities
and of superior quality and as for pears ana ap-
PIES they are so abundant that the farmers gather
them with sinking hearts. knowing that the prices
they can command will scarcely pay them for the
trouble
In canning fruit it is wise to use good deal oil
sugar. Plain canned fruit is apt to turn and does
not retain its flavor we'll as when made little
rich. If our housekeepors would take as much
pains in making preserves rs the fIcHcn GO, tneH
wonld find themselves amply rewarded when. in the
winter they turn out the beautiful, clear irut, al
ways IN perfect shape. To preserve fruit III the
French method il Is necessary 20 make clear syrup
first, which can be done by melting two pounds or
tie bost sugar with II pint OF water using white
porcelain kettle; add the slightly beaten white OF
one egg before the syrup becomes hot; let 1t bon
and skim il uDt til the scum ceoses TO appear. Then
put in carefully selected fruit pcach pear. green
gage crab-appe or cherry, few at a time. watch
ing carefully that they do not break and removing
one at n time as soon as they become soft. When
these are put glass jars and the syrup poured
over them the result viii make glad the most sto-
zeal cook. Peaches are selling as follows; Reeves
| Iavorite are bringing 30 cents per peck jersey
| Rare Ripe are x3 a barrel Naiacatlne 50 and
| Orange Rare Ripc are 80 aud 70 cents dozen.
| Malacaiune and jersey Rare Rpes are excellent
| peaches for preserving.
| Blue-rage pluns are % cents a quart Queen
| Claudes, purplc-gage, and Copper plums are the
same Seckel pears are % cents quart Bartletls
so cents dozen. Oranges ere 80 to 70 cents IA
dozen. Lines are 10 cents dozen, and lemons are
| - to 20 cents. Delaware grapes are 20 cents for
three pound boxes hOhOlse grapes are, of course,
| hieh-Sl pound. There il very little California
| fruit in the market Snch plums as are to be found
from that great 1Iuit -growlug state are 20 cents
| dozen. Apples range all the way from II TO II a
1 barrel
The best butter is 30 cents in the market.
| II cannot be- found up town, however for less
than - or - cents pound very good butter can
| be- had in Washington Market for p cents Eggs
are sill advancing III price; they are now 80 cents
| a dozen for good fresh ones
| The poultry and game in market run as follows
| Good chickens. 20 and % cents pound; choice
| Philadelphia dry picked chickens ~ cents fowls
| were worth IN the market yesterday 10 cents; up
| town they bring ! y 20 20 cents Il pound; turkeys
90 and 20 cents squads are % cents aplecei
grouse. - cents; partridgcs. ~ woodcoch, -
| cents English snIpe. - cents apiece ployer. 30
| cents; teal are 81 Il pair; wood duck the sane
small birds are Is cents dozen; reed binds, ~ -
| a dozen. Venison sells for 30 cents pound.
! The choice fish IN market are bass at - cents
| pound, frozen salmon al 10 cents, and Spanish
| mackerel 30 cents pound This last fish, 1t must
| not be forgotten is delicious broii"d aud served
| with The sdte 1dridrc-the ordinary mayOnnaIse
dressing with the abolition Of few cADeTs shailOts
parsley and chopped pickles. Terrapin are -
dozen, shecp.head % cents pound, sCailOps 81 30
! "A gal on soft clans from 10 TO 70 cents hundred
| blueIsn are cheap 1912 cents a pound common
machcIcl are . cents pOuGd, Wcahll.h and black
iish are 12l2 cents Hound j., PCrsles and Holsters
| 10 cents II pound. kiaGtsh % MS, slucits -
cents paddock and pollock cents. o. the fresh
water fish, salmon trout ere 10 cents pound POM
PIANO 90 cents sOtj era Is Is Gems TO 81 % per
! dozen; vlntcsh 10 cents pound. Smoked
| salmon IL 20 cents "a pound, SlIUAcG inackcrcl 10
| cents. aad dry col cents.
The supply of oysters is not Y"Ty large, BAT they
| are finer than Tor seyertI years StCWInG oysters
| nle 10 cents Il hundred ifyiug. ~ 30 hundred
! extra Saddle Rocks, - 81; sinai LlEc Points 10
! e MS.
In the vegetable market prizes follows:
| Celery, quite good, 10 and II GEMS ii buu en-
tomatOes. 70 cents craze, ar . cents qAdrt la 10
! Spanish onions Of fine flavor . 10 ccL.s a pound
! cauhfowcr, small and poor, 20 aua - c-nis; let
| trce. 3 cents head. or - cents "a uO1.n green
| CON- II to 20 GEMS IA dozen; radiSn,S II cents
| dozen buuches summer >Qasn, 3 To cents apiece.
Inc supply Of meat i good and large, prices re-
| naming at lasi quotations.
MENU.
Raw OYSTERS.
| Mac9rcni soup. paria~sdn Cheese grated.
| Fiilet de- 3nJfA Ia etsuaise.
| Bccts BoUrrr.
| Green Corr FriItcrs.
W oicOck. Jelly. SaiGto-d Potatoes.
| Salad a 1t Elssr.
Ed an Cheese. M.tcr waters
Velvet Cream. Taria., aux Fruits.
! Apples Grapes.