New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-14
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FRIITs IN MARKET

SOU IHERN FRUITS IN AAkktI
| THE FaUIr STORES WILLING UP WITH rHE choicest
DrIICAcrEs FROM THE soUTH-A GREAT SUPPLY
or PDUITRY-How TO TILL \ TENDER GOOSE
SATURDAYS PRICES IN THE MARKETS.
The appearance of the fruit stores IN lower Broad
way grows attractive rs each successive week
brings in new delicacies from the South Banana:
red and yellow-are offered at 80 and 60 cents pei
Dozen In the streets, however. good bananas oil
inferior size are TO be had low % and 30 cents
per dozen. These prices are of course, caused by
the advanced stage Of rIpening, which threatens
decay and consequent loss TO the dealers. Lemons
from Florida, of choice variety and very large arc
sold AZ 30 cents per dozen; foreign lemons. small
and fine TO be hal in the streets and mar
ket for II and 20 cents per dozen Mandarin
oranges. the finest DOW III market. are seiiihg IRON
30 TO 10 cents per dozen: Jamaica. next best are
40 and 90 cents per dozen fine pears such as
Beurre dAuglt are selling from 80 cents 10 al per
dozen; selected frnit OF remarkable SIZE and me
condition is sold 1T fancy prices. according 70 the
conscience of the dealer and his estimate OF his Gus
toner: there market standard for TINS sort OF
trade. California grapes. including Mllscat, lokay,
and Emperor, packed IN yc-pound boxes aud sell
at 81 % per box; Malaga grapes packed IN barrels
are % cents per pound fine Catawbas are selling
from IL 10 10 cents per pound California plums
are 20 and 30 cents Ter dozen; snow apples ana
lady apples from % TO 30 cents per dozen
hickory nuts, ~ cents per quart peeans, is cents
per pound psper-Sneiled almonds. 40 cents; new
SMYRNA ti2s, extra iine, are 20 and 80 cents per
pound iue dessert raislns sell from 20 TO 40 cents
per pound punes. choice varieties, 70 ana 80
cents. Spanish chestnuis are now IN market,
Americans generally nave no idea of the virtue OF
these nuts a vegetable; nothing can be more del,
cate or delicious They should be shelled first and
then boiled until tender; the water should then De
drained of and the mats served With melted butter
poured over them. Another manner which the
French have OF preparing them makes dainty
dish for luncheon. he nuts should I've boiled until
tender. Dui not allowed to fall to pieces they
should then be served p led mp IN the oeutfc OF "A
platter, aud mushroom sauce poured around
them. EreFh mushrooms are now IN market they
sell at 90 cents per pound and are much more deli
cate tnan the canned mushrooms that we get IRON
France.
Poultry Is extra fine this wear and the time is fast
approaching ii will he within he reach OF the
poorest classes After Thanksgiving Day poultry Is
always very cheap. OWING to the overlooking OF
the market for that scasoD Capons are selling from
~ to 20 cents per pound; chickens. 20 cents:
spring chickens 20 cents ducks Is cents; turkeys
from 1G 90 20 cents: mOngrci ducks from - 10 ~
cents; geese from IL 80 20 cents. Great care should
be taken IN selecting geese-nOtning Is more formid
able to guests aud carver than an old goose. When
young lhe feet and bills have a few hairs on them
aud are or n \eii0"ish Color anu the ieet are PHI
able. When Old the feet aud bills arr red, and When
some time killed, the feet are dry and stih. Geese
called green unll they are two or three months
old Fowl Is ID and is cents per pound; squad are
selling from 500 % - per dozen; grouse from
to ~ %; Gnail are Growing more plentiful and sell
at - % per dozen; PARTRIDGE from IL % to III 30
per paIi wOodcOch, III per pair; Engilsn snipe p3
per DOZEN ployer. % teal duck, 70 cents per pair;
NOOu DUCK, - GEMS, EdlllFu-, Hl 10 Tl %D' Itu
heads. 81 20 canvas hack 81 J0 rabbits. % cents
apiece; sweetOreads. 80 10 - 30 DER dozen pigeons
81; small birds, 10 cents per dozen; reed BIRDS
81 20; yeni.on, 20 cents per pound.
Tue fish market ls well supplied with fresh and
salt wafer fish. Smells from Rhode Island and
Maine are 20 cents per pound; bass, IL 10 20 cents
biuefisn. refrigerated, - cents; salmon, 30 to As
cents per pound; maekeTei, II cents; white perch.
II 10 10 cents; spanish mAckerel refrigerated, 30
cents; turtle, ~ cents; tcrrapin, 81 apiece;
haiibut IL cents pes pound; Goldfish plentiful,
from 10 10 cents Blacklist, 12l2 cents Il unders,
10 cents: sea bass, Is cents; cells. - cents: oh
sters, 10 cents shecpshead 20 cents; scaliOps, %
cents per quart. soft CLANS 40 to so cents per
hundred.
The fresh wafer fish are whiteish at 10 cents
per pound; pickrrel. II cents; salmon trout.
frlgerated. ID cenls red snapper, - cents; pom
PIANO, 60 cents per pound prlWn5, 30 cents pei
quart; nara craO', 81 to S3 per hundred.
The prices Of groceries do not change much. pro-
Visions generally being al last weeks quotations.
MENU.
Oyst rSJup.
Fllets OF WhtchIsh fried, Tomato sauce.
CIOust AIDES Of Chicken.
Rolled loin OF 5IuJ Boiled Potatoes Squash.
eau i'll ana Cheese
Saidd Of Partridge.
Cheese. Waters.
Chocolate Cream. Jam Tar;s
Coffee