New-York tribune., 1880-02-15
HOME INTERESTS.
THE rrsE OF CANNED SOUPS.


srccrsrtoss PoR MAKING soUPs--CANNED SOUPS
UsrFu1 IN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF MEAT
LITTLE cHASGED-sATUgDAYs PRICES IN THE
MARKETS.
The one dinner course which seems to be the great
stumbling IN the American bousekeepers ROAD
TO triumph is that of soup. 1t must be that the lack
of custom with the consequent lack OF application
and forebought. the matter OF preparing soup ls
the cause of this difficulty, for certainly nothing
can be more easily supplied than good soup for
dinner Any servant who knows enough to keep
fire burning can be Taught, without effort, to keep
soup stock gently simmering on the back OF the
range All heavy soups are best with the addition
of good stock instead of water, though water is not
a bad substitute. and many cases heavy soups are
mode with the meat boiled with the other ngredi-
ents
To pea and bean somp the best addition in the
way OF meat is bit of salt pork: stock
should, of course. be employed if pork is not
used. Straining stock for clear SOUP is vrcy
easy and quick operation. though if clear soup is
TO be insured the housekeeper should not LET com
mon cook do the straining. IN families where SOUP
is the usual first course. the dinner seems curonsy
curtacd and unsatisfactory If that addition hap
pens by any chance 80 be omitted, and 1t is better
i'm case of emergency to send the grocery ana get
n can of soup al the last moment than to spoil the
meal These canned SOUPS are very nice. Every
o nrcperly prepared homemade soup. still il is
safe TO say they are much better than MANY sonps
made by so-callcd professional cooks ! ne cans hou
bout quart. and the sonp is good aud rlch'So that
II may lie thiuncd considerably ~ many casfs;
most vegetable soups arc comparatively Inexpensive
bUt tie meat soups dcarer. ,
The butchers say hat the price OF meat at retall
does moi vary much. a prime RIB roast sells AZ ~
cents retail in Washington Market; porierh"n7e
roast comes a little ,carer can be had ior % ccnis
but sells generally for 24 and % cens poteliouse
steak runs about the same. though III some "I tne
uptown shops sells at % cents per pound srIon
.fe,ks round bone ard fat rome steaks sell NJ EO
ccuts pcr pound: fresh ump beef aud help roast are
4 cents per pound; leg, ceEtS; corned na-
cents per pound. Filet in the markets.
sold by first-cass butchers, IS 30 cents per
nonnd but It seems to he impossible to get 1t tor
much less than 3 from the uptown butchers. LON
and leg of veal, in the markets. are from Is to 20
cents in the shops rom 20 10 " cents per DOund
veal cutlcts - cents. Winter lamb, or uttor, as
II must be called. l. from 10 10 cents per pound
according the cut. tI-,own the prices run very
little higher. Spring lamb Is siill 40 nucA o. 4
rarity that the prices are pretty much what batch-
crs conscience will permit hlm 10 ask, ana ~ re-
mains stnl beyond the reach of ordinary mortas.
The pDultry dealers reduced to five or six va
ricties in their stock Wild goose comes The nearest
possible 10 game and Wild goose sells FOR Sl %
tame duck. not being game, mst be content TO sell
nj the mean sum Of rs cents per pound pigeons are
- 80 per dozen; chickens are from l2l2 10 IA
ccuts prr pound tui keys u 10 ! > cents. Cap0ns
ara - cents per pound, Int the snarp butchers sell
a nicely dry-pcked chicken for canon. and the mr.
initiated fancy they have delicacy. Perhaps II
would be JUST well for some OF the young house-
keepers who are entertaining their husbands bach
clor friends To learn of the tricks OF the trade
from older heads before they undertake to market
Tor connosscurs whose paates have been educated
Lv foreign experience.
Fresh salads are still limited to tomatoes, which
are 35 cents "a quart, an encouraging reduction of
> cents during the last week; lettuce 10 to il
cents per head rldlshes. q cents per bunch
crcunbers. 30 cents apiece wntercrrss. 10 cents
uer uunrt field salad, - cents per quart. ana lieI-
nuda potatoes. which II the housrkccrer under
stands tine proper preparation OF potato salad. make
a most delicious one.
cents p r bunch: Bermuda beets - cents per peek.
and green peas from the South sell Tor % cents per
neck Ihuharb. 10 cents per bunch. Celery Is grow
ng somewhat scarce, aud Is 30 OF 30 cents per
bunch -,
standing the Lenten season. which Is surely very
Inconsidcrate on the part of the FISH Frozen striped
ba,s IL 30 cents per pound; sIret@, IL to 10 ceuis
salmon, refrigerated, 22 cents; green turtle, 20
cents; hadduck, cents; haltbui, 10 cents; frost
fish, o cents; tcrrlpin has IN consequence ol the
soft weather come down 70 81 dozen; liv' Ccd,
10 cents Der pound steak cod the same, and market
cod \ cents Herring, fish because OF rs chea'-
nos having an inmpns s1ic among the poorer class
during Lent. j. now selling at cents per pound. ana
in some markets ~ per hundred; h"und"rs ocents
per pound; lobsters. ~ cents; sheepshead -
cents scailops. ~ 50 per gallon soft CLAIMS. 40 To
80 cents pr 100; White hsh. III To lS cents per
pound: salmon trout, Is cents; prawnS. ~ 30 per
gallon; shad still scarce lut regular, - cents Tor
back and ~ 80 for roe shad
The prices at fruit remain n last weeSs stan
dard there does not seem To be any thing new IN
the markets at present. Strawberries sell ~ 80
cents pcr quart, 50 say the dealers, hut the boxes
cannot dr eve many persons INTO believing that
they contain quart. Vans from Cuba are I'D ccnts,
and uertaitucs 30 20 % cents per doz u Malaga
cranes are from - 80 20 cents per pound.
Ia. best butter Ia Fulton Market eclls for II
crnts Uptown, butter still goes rs high ~ %
cents; bur ~ many ca,c' very good butter can 9e
had for - and 30 cents. Maple sugar Is tte ony
novelty in the markets, and Il D. unfortunately very
APT 10 be- last years sugar melted over However
a. tYr H.
for - and 30 cents pes pound.
TIE retail prices OF sugar have not changed