New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-25
HOME INTERESTS.
FEATURES OF THE MARKETS.


full Of the squirmers and catching By the back
of the head held 1t firmly despite It's slippery efforts
to escape. Among my customers" he continued.
there a number of bank presidents, and almost
every of them has cells ordered for his break
fast regularly on Sunday. Cat into sections, split
open and fried in butter. eels well worth the Is
cents pound that they cost
There IS general complaint among fish
dealers that this there has been
little call for dainty food ike
brook front and terrapin. Hard times in Wall
Street Is the cause. Terrapin worth $2i .
dozen. and Long Island brook trout 50 cents
pound-cheaper than they have been for many
years Bluetsh are being caught fron North Caro-
Ina 20 Maine, and sell at retail for II cents q
pound Fresh mackerel are worth l2I3 cents.
sheepshead the same Holsters 10 cents flukes.
founders and cod cents. aud haddock d cent.
pound Such cheapness is rare in Fulton Market.
The North River shad is thing Of the past for
this year.
Abundance and cheapness characterized the
vegetable, fruit and provision supplies OF
the city no less than the fish markets In
yitlng heaps of "Ox-heart," black heart
and many other kinds of cherries from the Caronas
tempt the palate and the purse at 30 20 I'D
cents pound. Norfolk and Maryland strawberries
can be had from 20 cents quart TO two quarts Tor
- cents. Before long this fruit may he expected
from Long Island and New Jersey, when being un-
SURPASSED for excellence and cheapness, Gamers for
the trade and hOusekeepers who prefer 10 DO thelr
own putting up " will 60 to the market in body
The outlook for the peach and berry crops is said
to be good. Florida oranges bring 30 and 30
Every variety Of vegetables be had in
Washington Market, and the coast steamers
nearly every day IN the week add 10
the elut. Colossal asparagus can he had for
20 bunch, caul flower 10 cents each lettuce
beans 80 cents a lf-peck. tomatoes 20 cents a
quart shelied peas % cents quart and beets Tour
punches for Is cents Norfolk cabbagcs come, at
the rate of , 900 head on every steamer. Charles
ton cabbages are disappearing
There never was 80 little variety ia the game
market as now said Mr.. Van NOstrand. of Knapp,
Van NOstrand 4 Co. Tame squads at 81 and 80 q
dozen keep up IN price Small 1lrnS OF many klh.s
try and make up the deficiency left by wild ducks
| blackbreasts, cur!ews robins snlpe and mixed
| assortment denonlinated generally plover sell
| from 81 TO ~ dozen. Fat doe birds from the III
dian Territory cost So dozen lame pigeons are
| worth ~ -. wild pigeons 80, and English pleas
ants 81 a Dozen
A large stock Of poultry is held
IN freezerS in Washington Market 70 await the
opening OF summer hotels when orders rush in from
propretors for tons of Philadelphia capons. chick
ems. TOasers. ducks. geese and dry-plcked turkeys
Spring chickens just now are the popular iavOTite.
and wide margin as TO price, which ranges from
81 TO 81 pair, is governed by size, Long Island
ducknugs bring 40 cents pound. NIne-pound
capOns sell for 33 and 80 cents pound.
Butter and eggs are at their cheapest the former
costing 30 cents pound and Long Island eggs -
cents dozen.
SOUTHERN FARE As SEEN AT CHARLESTON
1t ia pleasure feast celestals" small ny;
that are purpish without and crimson and gold within
and it amusing to eat cooters or turtles eggs salt
ing and sucking them through small opening in thciI
parchment-like shells
Hominy the staff of life in the south il the uni
yersal breakfast dish and each well trained child Is
quired 10 break Its fast with before eating anything
else It is usually with butter. but sometime.
with milk gravy. molasses sugar, or without
ANYTHING. that is - dry" Southern hOminy when nm
cooked is known grts. Ii is ground hne aud as lt
is made of flint a knd into which all varieties ara
said to be changed on the islands Charleston it
has a ,wccter flavor than Northern hOmny.
Ciabbcr In summer is thought by many families ndis-
pensabe TO breakfast. the quickness With which
milk in warm climates gives il a peculiarly
| grateful flavor.
popular soup with the people E turup soup, which
when well made as well cabbage aud potato soup
is excellent The best soup is okTa or true glInb0
which is eaten with the green pepper lying at each
plate partly sliced INTO It, and sometimes with delicate
hower-tanped waters This soup in summer With Tia
dessert forms the usual dinner Of many of the first
Carolina families
fsyorte fish il tire whiting which, sold in silvery
string l. served -avOry Wilderness with drawn but
tor aud an unknown scarlet fish offered for sale ia the
hsh market was called by the colored vender Pom
june brings the shrimps which are made with rice
into shrimp pie served on toast. more rarely IN
primitive style when their jackets are removed at the
| table and they are eaten with vinegar.
| Rice Il usually boiled but when fried with tomatoes
| a called plan" and described by colored cook AZ
better than the tother side of nice Homny il Otter
eaten AZ dinner instead OF rice vet the low country
coored IT, demanding rice instead Cow
peas are nice and spicy favored and are made into
nutritious soup against which there is slight prejudice
! because il was standard war dish. When cooked
with rice they form tavorte dish known a. hopping
John ', aud when boiled with hominy. an upcountry
1 Sh called Inning Kate.
| burma the year there are two crops of vegetables
Okra ap sears in midsummer; IL looks like small pale,
green cucumber filed with rows OF pearly seeds When
cooked with butter t l. an agreeable vegetable, anc
| very nutritious from the mucage IT contains.
String beans are known "a snap-beans lima bean; az
seabe-beans giant egg plants Guinea squashes. sEl
potatoes always mean sweet potatoes, the other KIND
| being distinguished from them Irish potatoes.
| Sweet potatoes in their native cline are sometimes
| candied when they delicious. They sometimes
| thus form dessert and one Southern divine always
! called II Gods pudding
although the sight of the loayes through the wire net
ting OF the bskeroarts, they pass over the dusty
roads, il appetizing it is of superior quality
Crackers only known As biscuits, and wigs" are
| rolls containing currants.
Penny squares of gingerbread are called Lafayette
cakes y ginger cookies, when arge. gungas and wher
small rifle balls but the CharlestOnldn cake for the
people l. horse cake or hOrses, which Is ginger
bread sugar cake cut by tin mouds into carcatures
of horses and sold az the shops at the rate OF nifty O
| hundred day.
brazilian nuts are only known as buttenuts. and
peanuts almost invariably called ground nuts.
| Although sometimes pndars. Ground-uut cakes each
| consist OF dozen or moro Groundnut- fastened
together with moasscs, which l. often Favored with
] orangc.iuce They are delicious and sold for
| penny apiece 10 everyone by the " maumas' odd
cOored women the street corners or at the cOlored
peoples doors and stalls all the state and IN
| Georgia The coarse brown paper in which each one
Is wrapped keeps the fingers from contact while eating
| Il.
Sherbct Is more popular than ice and the ice
used their freezing Is considered dainty by south
| ern children.
! A. less food is required in the South than in tho
North the virtue If the rich Of temperance ia eat
| Ing Is the custom
| HOSEUOLD NOTES.