New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-10-31
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THE GAME AND POULTRY MARKET

| THE GAME AND POULTRY MAhhEi'
| cANvAsBACK DUCK AND now 10 COOK THIN
| GREAT ABUNDANCE OF FrsH-wEsT INDIAN
| pprsrRvEs-sATURDAY's PRICES IN THE MAR
| RETS.
The game season has filed mp the pouIterers
| stalls in the markets. and the delights OF part
ridge snlpe and duck almost compensate for the de-
| parinre of the summer fruits. Canvas-back ana
redhcad ducks are plentiful, aud the prices are not
| To he dreaded fine pair of yas-back ducks can
| he had for 50 80 or So. Tho redheads are less eX-
pensive and to none picurean appetltes they are
quite ms good ~ the favOrite canvas-back-fr0m Nl
TO 81 25 per pair were the prices asked Tor red
| heads in Washington Market Saturday. There IL
an old fashioned notion. which many housekeepers
| still cling to- that all game should be thoroughly
cooked-a miserable mista ke groaned over by many
a poor man who knows better There is no obJcc-
ton to stufling and roasting tame duck for hours
il it so pleases the cook They good for nothing
anyhow in tho judgment of many experts. But the
wild duck should be served without stuing ana
rare. taking trouble to observe the distinction be-
tween raw and rare-a vast difference. too lIttlo
needed by the average cook. One taste of properly
cooked rare canvas back duck would be enough to
convince the most preJudiced person. if at all fond
of game that it is the only way to eat that delcct
able bird Mallarl ducks are worth from 30 cents
TO 81 per pair; teal from 80 to 60 cents and com
~
81 40 to 81 80 per PAIR woodcock, 80 cents to 81
English snipe, 81 80 to SO per dozen plover, So 30
and acknowledged snipe from So 80 to 80.
The finest Philadelphia dry picked chickens are
selling from 20 to % cents per pound common
scaldcd chickens from 16 TO Is cents; fowls from
II to Is cents: turkeys 10 to 20 cents; ducks Is
| to 20 cents; geese 16 to 10 cents per pound
The prices asked for meats remain much the same,
a small difference being always maintained between
| to be luxury this winter the price asked by some
uptown dealers for salt pork being at present 10
cents per pound city cured hams down town bring
from II to II cents per pound-up town, II cents;
leaf lard sells from IL to Ii cents per pound bacon
from Is TO q cents.
Ia the dry groceries on Vcsey-st. granulated
sugar Is 10 cents per pound cut loaf sugar, 103l
cents crushed lump sugar 1854 cents; nolasses,
from 40 to 20 cents per gallons OoonR Tea. from 80
to 50 cents per pound English breakfast, from 80
from 80 cents to 81 per pound; gunpowder, 50
cents to 81 lmperal green, 30 10 so cents cocoa
and chocolate are selling from 10 to 90 cents per
pound cOifees sell from 30 10 40 cents. Fine
fresh butter remains firm AT 80 and 10 cents per
pound, and tine demand is increasing as ordinary
packed butter grows poorer Eggs sell tor 40 cents,
fol- good fresh Long Island eggs packed eggs are
% cents per dozen Domestic cheese is selling
from lG to IS cents per pound.
The irult dealers say that the demand for West
Indian prcseryes-cOcOa plum aud other tropical
frus-increases daily as their virtues become more
generally known. The average price per jar, for
these iInporatlons is 40 cents he California
grapes. flaming tokcy, muScat and emperor are
selling for 30 cents per pound California pears,
cents per tOLfus HIlRdlOI pears Do per utIfu
bananas from 40 to % cents per dozen; plantainS,
rs cents; sugar cane 10 cents per stick.
The fish supply is still abundant both as to guam
tity and variety. Bass Is plentiful and much
cheaper than 1t has been for months. Quantities
have been caught during the past two weeks, in the
East River and all points near us the fish are re-
markedly large anu very firm, selling from 10 to 20
cents per pound smelts from Name selling at
20 cents per pound reduction IN price OF cents
during the past week blue fish little higher,
selling now tor 10 cents per pound refrigerated
salmon il 30 cents; mackcrel III large supply and
fine, from Block Island, selling from II to ID
cents per pound: weakiish, 10 cents white perch.
l. cents; terrapin, S12 to $50 per dozen; green
turtle from II 10 10 cents per pound hallbut 10
cents. selling Saturday week ago for Is cents:
haddOck. cents; klngfsh, % cents; goldfish. .
cents. beginning to be more plentiful; blacklish.
12l2 cents; fiounders, 8 to 10 cents; porgies, 10
cents sea bass, 10 cents scOllops 81 5Qper ga Ion;
soft clans, 40 to 90 cents per hundred salmon
trout, and whltefsh are II cents per pound POM
piano. 70 cents ; hard crabs. - 30 per hundred.
Smoked salmon and mackerei 20 cents per
pound smoked haddock. 12i2 cents {; crayish, $3
per hundred frogs, 80 cents per pound.
Green is still in market AT cents per dozen;
string beans 80 cents per hail peek sweet pOta
toes from 10 10 30 cents per peck common pOta-
toes from 20 to 30 cents per peek onions 80 cents;
cabbage from TO cents per head tumIps 20
cents per peck bccts, cents per bunch; pumpkins,
oyster plant. 10 cents: craabCrrles very plentiful
and extra fine cents per quart lettuce, from 3 to
cents per head cauilllOwer, 20 TO 40 cents apiece.
MENU.
Raw Oysters.
Juienue soup
Boiled fish. sauce piqudnte. Nudes.
Veal outlet with garnlsh OF fried parsnips. Mashed
Potatoes
Braised partTdges PURGE OF spinach. Currant Jelly.
Salad Celery MaYOnnaIse.
Cheese Omclctte.
Creme plstache Champagne jelly.
Apples, pears and grapes
COffce.