New-York tribune., 1880-10-03
HOME INTERESTS.
,r,p r,prrr,r SIrppIY DECLINING.

lHt ERUII SU1Ib1
PEACHES AND PLUMs DIsApPFAnrsd-Gn APP
ABUNDANT AND FINE-cRANBERRiEs AND ho"
To PREPARE TuEM-sATUKDAY's PRICES IN Iul
Markets.
The markets still keep on their summer face. but
there is n sad decline Of summer virtues Inc iuS-
cious peach has reached the sere and yellow stage
when the dry. almost dusty little apology for the
exquisite delight of a few weeks ago is thrown away
In disgust why they are kept in market Is q queo-
ton IL Ia doubtful il any are sold. Plums, too,
are getting shrlveled and old they. however, are
nice cooked and arosellng from 81 to So per basket
some fine large pus oro still to bo found ut the irnit
stores in lower Broadway and ut tho dealers uptown
tloy bring, Of course. fancy prices 3 ana D cspts
apiece.
Pears arc very abundant and exceedingly nice
this fall Fine Bartletts are selling from 81 30 to
So per basket and sell generally from % to 40 cents
per dozen. Pears are picked green or JUST Dotore
the rpening stage; in this way they come 10 peIlec-
ton and are kept longer than when eft on the trees
Beurre dAnjou, Beurre Diel. and Bcurre Clalrgeau
sell from 10 to 20 cents per quart. Grapes are
especially fine and the crop Is large Concc1do arc
cents per pound and Doawares sell from TO IL
cents fine Catawbas % cents per box, contain
ing about 2i2 pounds. or II cents per pound dn9 d
California grapes In market are the MuScao anu
Tokay they sell for 40 ceuts per pound.
Cranberres are IN full supply. and are SAID TO Do
remarkably ine and. unless there Is irost soon 10
flsgE DOGS,
cheaper this year than last They are selling now
for 10 cents por quart. The best way 10 prepare
this dainty relish for meat and game IS 10 add one
teacupful OF water to quart OF cranperrles, anu
put them over the fire. Alter cooking ten minutes
mash and add two heaplng cup.nls OF sugar D Gook
about ten minutes longer, stirrhg % oiLeu. 1 our our
them into n bowl or mould, anu WHEN cou Ihey odh
be removed Jelly.
morning Green peas, especially full III poo, were
selling for so cents per peck Lima beans DO cents
o
cents per head beets 20 cents per peek egg-piHht
o to 10 cents apiece oyster plant 10 cents per
bunch cucumber pickles 20 to % cents per nun
dred celery 10 cents; lettuce to cents per head
string beans 20 cents per peck tomatoes 20 cents;
onions 80 cents turnips 20 cents; pumpkins D 20
10 cents each; potatoes 20 to 80 cents per
peck Apples are selling generally a htue
cheaper than potatoes this fall; some sweet
potatoes arc 4O to oU rn cents tss rPe PGr sanc EM
from 25 to 40 cents. There IS considerable sKI re-
Quired in cooking properly thus delicate yegetaole
In the first place It should never De Oollea III al [1h
this precaution and if it is served the moment IL Is
cooked the result will be snow-white flower
beautiful to see and delicious to taste. nice ad-
diton In the inevitable white for caullfiower
il grated Parmesan cheese. ~ ,
Best butter is 40 cents uptown aud 3S in the
markets dairy butter 80 cents per pound; cheap
ordinary butter ranges from % cents upward.
Cheese is 16 cents per pound; Edam cheeses are
81 10 apiece Eggs are 20 cents dozen' ana iroih
SO to 35 cents for fine basket eggs. 80,
Cut sugar Is 1 cents per pound granuiated lOi2
cents powdered sugar the same light brown sugar
@ cents and dark Sl4 cents per pound.
The best Mocha coffee sells for 30 cents per pound
downtown the uptown dealers however, charge
40 cents for it; Java Is 80 and 80 cents; Rlo ~
cents ,., 40
O0long tea is 20 cents per poundi Imperial 40
cents Young HysOn, 40 cents, and English Break
fast so cents per pound , ,,. Al, .
There is a fine run of poultry in the markets, the
prices of which are pretty much the same as those
quoted last week. Chickens 20 to 20 cents per
ponnd; capon Dullets 20 cents; ducks 70 cents
fnrkeys 20 to 22 cents per pound; mongre1 ducks
% cents and mongrel geese 20 cents per pound
fowls are Is cents teal duck are 81 per par; WOOD
duck tho same: mallards 81 % per pair; pigeons
are selling AT So % per dOzen small BIRDS 20 cents,
and reed birds II 20 per Dozen Extra hne large
frogs 30 cents per dozen. English snpe and pi0ver
are selling at SO per dozen; partrdges aud wood
cock IL % per pair. c , A.,
There has been large catch of fish during the
| mast week. Prices were, consequently very easy
Saturday morning. Bluefsh. III great quantities,
@ cents per pound mackerel, 10 cents weakhsn,
10 cents white perch, Is cents Spanish mackerel,
IS to So cents according to size haIlbut, 10 cents
green turtle. Is cents salmon, refrigerated, 80
cents: kingfish 20 cents; blacktish 12i2 cents
founders 10 cents sea bass IS ID cents per pound
scallops. 81 80 per gallon soft CLAIMS, 4O to ~
cents per hundred Holsters, 10 cents per pound.
The freshwater rish Whitefsh, at IL cents per
pound pickerel 12l2 cents salmon trout 10 cents;
ciscoes 10 cents red snapper. IL cents pompano;
rs cents whitebait. 75 cents; hard crabs, ~ oo
per hundred soft crabs 81 so per dozen.
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