The Portland daily press., 1891-11-25
THANKSGIVING MARKETS.
The Tempting Appearance Of the
Provision Stores.
what 1t VIII Cost You for a Turkey
and the Fixlngs.

| Portland provision stores put on their
most attractive appearance yesterday. In
many Of them great good taste was shown
in the arrangement of plump poultry In
the windows, garnished with all the most
tempting of greenery and fruit. The oys-
ter shops exhibited great piles of bivalyes,
and the fruit stores great purple clusters of
| grapes surrounded by brown skinned, lus-
cious pears, golden skinned oranges and
ruddy checked apples. In the poultry
| markets the hooks were laden with thirds,
in most cases. carefully and skilfully
dressed. One of the handsomest turkeys
on exhibition hung at Sawyer & DyeI's
door and reminded one Of the turkey made
famou) In Dickens's Christmas Carol,
the one the regenerated Scrooge asked the
boy If he knew the one that hung at the
door of the poulterer on the corner and
was as big as the boy was. This turkey
weighed eighteen pounds and four ounces =,
and was admirably proportional, and yet
he was chubby turkey. his drumsticks
we'll filled out
The countrymen didn't bring in great
supply. The weather has been unfavora-
BILE, for the ground and streams have been
open, and the birds have in great meas
ure foraged for themselves instead of be-
ing kept in and stuffed as they are in cold
weather. Ducks looked well and there
were some fine geese. These are the prices
that were asked
Turkeys, % to 80 cents; chicks, Is to %;
ducks, ~ to 25; geese, 20 to %; Bremen
geese, %; fowls, 10 to 20; quail, $3.50 per
dozen; woodcock and cartridges. 40 cents
chickens, SLIGO pair pigeons. So a dozen;
vepison Esteak, 80 cents; cucumbers 10
cents; celery, IL cents bunch; lettuce, 10
cents head; radishes, IL cents bunch;
spinach. 30 cents peck; caulifiower, 80 to
60 cts; Florida green peas, 60 cents peck
plants, 80 cents.
Blue point, Cape Cod, New York and
Rocky Point oysters are 70 cents a qua-t;
Warehams and Warren Rivers, Co; Provi-
dence Rivers. 40; Virginias, 35; the famous
Sea Pats. from East Falmouth, Mass, So
cents quart. The Sea Pats are at Lom-
bards and are the latest fad of the clubs.
They are delicious in flavor.
Pears are 10 to 80 cents dozen; oranges.
sweet, %; bananas, 10 to %; basket, So to
90; California Tokays, 70 a basket; Mala-
gas. IL pOuHu, uOun6au apples, 81 TO 40
cents; figs, 10 cents; dates, 10; lemon s, 25
dozen; black California grapes. 10 cents
pound.
OF course the Thanksgiving turkey is a
dish that every household wants to be of
the best; and the way to attain this end is
to select good bird to start with. .If
you are town dweller." writes practical
woman in the Ladies' Home Journal, "you
must secure your bird from a poulterer;
and let me whisper to not to ly too i'm
plicitly on his judgment. Tastes differ, and
upon this occasion you wish to suit your
own. Some persons prefer gobbler to
hen turkey. but will advise you a hen.
The meat Is whittier, sweeter and more ten
der. The bill and toes should be soft, and
the flesh have bluish-white cast, twelve
pounds being an exceedingly good weight.
The fortunate country dweller has his own
turkeys, or should have, at least, and can
mold them at will. The feed can be so
managed that the meat will be white, ten
der and of delicate flavor, or the flavor
may be greatly heightened by a change of
diet. Chopped turnips. cabbage and pars.
ley, varied with corn meal, boiled rice and
chopped celery tops, impart a peculiar
gamey flavor, which to many persons is
very desirable. The food may be given
three or four days before killing"