New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-30
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NAV DELICACIEs.
4 DULL. ssEAT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IN ABUNDAS'
nnn,runrnnIFa HIGH IN PRICE.

, D1rr1 afrAr A5ARKET-yEGETABLEs IN ABUNDANCE
Strawberries HIGH IN PRICE.
Thanks TO Yesterdays fresh breezes and small
watts of salt fragrance it does not to-day seem unre
sonabe to be blessed with hints and urgngs oil goou
appetite. In the hot weather Of tho past week the
best things of the market lost something OF thelr
resb and even the dscreetist cook got but languid
gratitude The butchers had cause to mourn the ar
dor of the MAY sum- for that with alamentabe scare
itv of ice. led to the spelling of much good meat
Their market is now somewhat dull at best this not
being the time O. year for generous feeding. Beef
roass are ~ to 20 cents pound porterhouse STEAK
20 to % cents
Here may be mentioned not very expensive way
of providing fillet for dinner. Ask your butcher
in tones of assured knowledge and large experience
for an eight-pound piece of "porterhouse cut"
Choose piece far enough along to"aru Gne LIZ i
bone to have the tenderloin part OF an even SIZE
throughout its length. As the hllet would naturally
spoi first have the butcher cut 1t ont nicely, ana
use it first let him keep the rest IN ms lcenouse
Then have the tough, stringy end of your eight
1Ound piece cut of and either use 1t tor soup meat
or as boie1 beef. When 1t is properly ooiied-snae
sauce-ft is not TO be shifted at by anybody Next
day have the top part of yOnr beef when lS IeIG
| sniit IN thin slices, and as beef rolls. slowly
| cooked and served with delicious mushroom
| sauce Nought will DO left OF your original peer
but the bone and this is to be cracked end used Tor
! soup stock Soup meat, bought 1Or tne pu TpoBe
| cost from to IL cents pound, -.
Far your trim outlets of veal, peerng up from
| smooth brown sauce amid fringe OF greeneryi you
shall nav from 20 to % cents a pound; for chops,
l3 to 3; the other cuts are cheaper. spring lamp
| has. with an ethereal mildness greatly TO be com
| mended gone down little IN price ioIrguaIrteIs
| are IL to 10 cents; headquarters 10 To 10 cnOps
| 20 TO %. The most costly mutton thaI ever
! frisked does not now exceed 10 cents pound in
The best of AL chickens for delicate brOiling are
of course those pretty yellow things that come dry
| nicked from PHILADELPHIA. They 40 cents a
| nd hal eft
| cents head. Chickens for Toastlng are 10 10 ~
cents pound; the Jersey and Long Islanu scalGed
aristocratic dry-picked" from the City OF
Brotherly Love. Turkeys cost II and 10 cents
a pound, some particularly nice vermont frozen
| turkeys selling at 20 and % cents. The few Spring
| ducks i'm market are not common folks" at all,
! for thew bring 80 to 40 cents pOurd. The little
| wild pigeons are 81 q dozen; the SQUADS are less
| eighty nv nature but more in pTice-p2 90 dozen.
| English snipe 81 80 TO S5, and the neat httle
| frogs legs are 80 cents pound
| Most hOusekeepers at this season Ignore oysters,
but they are nevertheless sold, the best transplane
oyster being in good demand. The large ones cost
81 20 hundred Fsh are pitndlluI I'd 's sB3d d@{
| TO 30 cents each. Hallbut is 10 cents pound
lobster 10 to ~ cents. Crabs are 40 to W Genus
dozen and clans 20 to go cents hundred
! The markets are heaped with vegetables. sweet
with Their clean, earthly smell aud interior ira
GRANGE. and bright with the coiors MaiuIes oTn
| yannah and Bermuda new potatoes cost from 20 70
40 cents a half peck. Green peas. which should
untimey mp their Northern relations, are
| from Is to 30 cents bali peck Aspar-
agus from Oyster Bay costs 20 cents Onnch
| that from Ncw-Jersoy, 90 centsj Southern, 10 to
! 20 cents. The cook should BIO reminded that as
paragIs cannot be perfect unless 1T is deicately
peeled: It rs thus prepared by masters OF their art
| abroad, String beans 10 cents n quart. On the
principle that 10 rs always well to state pheasant
fact, 1t may be repeated that the young stIlh h
| beans when used for salad should not only be
| strung-they must also be split into their natural
halves. The largest, smoothest tomatoes are 70
cents quart; others are ~. Spnacn Is ~ 70
cents a half-peck; caulihower 20 cents head
| new carrots TO cents bunch; beets, D ana ~
cents a bunch: aud rhubarb, 3 and cents bunch:
The strawberry supply was not very aDundaht
! Yesterday though the berries were much desired
and prices high The best Jersey berries cost 80 to
| 20 cents a quart, aud Maryland and delaware
berries 10 to 80 cents, according to quality Recent
light rains are sending the Strawberries 10 marKet
with better Tipeness aud flavor than those OF last
| week The North Carolina cherries ~ market are
, them amt at ' Is and nd 20 cents quart,
| uenai bit of fartness, well slowed and sweetoned,
and eaten with whipped cream 10 coming up rapidly
| from Maryland and Is sold by the quart at ~ ana
10 CENTS Pneapples are bundant and cheap at 10
to 10 cents each; there are Few good oranges. va,
loncas aud JamaIcas now selling from oV
10 IS cents a dozen. Bananas now cost
from % to 30 cents dozen. and are not very Den-
tIful. Hot-house grapes-tho rich Black Hamburgs
arc sold at 81 TO 81 % pound. he ilrSt arrival
! of new peachcs-enrly corners, small and green and
tastcless enough, probably-ls expected from
Georgia next week. There are few apples[re-
| frigerator stoOk-in market, Badwlns cost from
| Si to 81 % a basket and Golden Russets 70 cents
| tO$l. 49, 1870
The best State dairy butter Is sci ling at % cents
| a pound-the Wholesale price being 70 cents.
| Choice creamery butter is % aud 20 cents. The
best Western eggs cost % cents for twenty and Jer
! sey and Long Island eggs sixteen for 70.
A dainty little dinner for u warm dAyi
Stewed CLAIMS.
Fillet OF Beef with Mushrooms; Stuffed Tomatoes
Outlets OF Pigeons on toast Green Peas
Saiad String Beans with French dressing
Pineapple leo; STRAY berres and cream.
Coffee.