The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-11
HIGH PRICES
Is. TROUBLE
HOUSEWIVES
Plans IngeniOusly to EcOnomize on
"a. Meats md .Ruttar

Plans IngeniOusly&tO Economize on
Meats and Butter.
The economical housewife is In trouble now
adays and with butter and meat soaring in
price she is hard sput to maintain an ;appetiz-
Ing table wtthout#a decided increase Of ex-
pense However, the butchers report that the
amount of money expended remains practical
ly unchanged, the difference being in the
amount OF meat purchased or III the quality
OF the cuts. People who formerly used only
the best cuts are now employing the less ex-
penslve ones The advance in prices includes
butter. lard and all kinds of meat and poul-
try: and, as fresh fish is scarce it is also
high.
There is some difference of opinion whether
or: not bullheads are contraband fish, but at
all events they have been on sale at intervals
during the past week, and at 10 cents pound
no more toothsome dish can be had for the
money II one has a fondness for shad roe
1t is NO longer necessary to purchase large
and expensive fish to get it, for it Is on sale
separately now at 90 cents a pound Frogs
legs at 10 cents and u cents a dozen, fried
| in deep fat and served with piQuant sauce
are very welcome variation of the spring
| menu. Salmon trout from the Pacific ocean
may be had at 10 cents a pound; halibut
steaks, IL cents pound; Lake Superior
| Whitehsh. IA cents; trout 1917 CENTS
/ The demand for light meat dishes calls into
more general use at this season sweetbreads,
which are mot SO expensive at 50 cents a
pound as they seem, for there is no waste
and they are nearly always served in cream
| or in combination with other materials that
! make a little meat go long way. Another
| tasty meat dish is smoked tongue, which is
boiled until tender and dressed in variety of
ways with highly Favored sauces. Both OF
| these dishes make choice entrees or may be
the main dish at luncheon or supper or even
at a dinner where the other dishes are sub
stantial .4s go
Poultry is scarce and high broilers being
% cents a pound. and chickens, Is cents;
| ducks, IL cents. Milk lamb is still the leading
| tidbit and sells from s1.25 to 81 quarter.
I Not only have meats gone up but butter Is
| unprecedentedly high and there Is not encour-
agement to look for lowering Of price in
less than two weeks. Creamery is selling for
| 80 cents and all other grades are correspond
lingly high: cheese has also advanced in price
| and eggs have remained stationary at 10 cents
| a dozen. =
There has been some general reduction in
the price of fresh vegetables and their quail
ity is improving greatly. Strawberries have
taken sudden drop this week and are now
! selling at 20 cents quart and are really good
Oranges are getting higher. averaging 80 and
apples are rather higher, ranging from 80 to
40 cents for rather small specimens. There
| are some choice apples In the market from
| the west at S165 for bushel boxes. Pie plant
1 is still 10 cents pound. New maple sugar
has come into the market this week and sells
| at Is cents pound. Tomatoes are selling
| at IS cents a pound basket; cucumbers
10 to 20 cents apiece: southern asparagus, 10
cents; summer squash, S cents; potatoes, SO
cents a bushel: watercress, cents; head let
tuce, to cents; leaf lettuce, 3 cents; tur-
nips, 8 cents a bunch, peas. 10 cents quart;
string and wax beans, IL cents pound; spin
ach. 20 cents peck; artichokes. 20 cents.
Sunday Menu" T.
| BREAKFAST.
| Fruit
Wheatlet, Milk
! Broiled Lambs Kidneys - Bacon
Toast Coffee ,
DINNER.
Clear Soup
Roasted Ducks, Walnut stufang e
stringed Beans stewed Leeks
| Waters Club House Cheese
| ~ Strawberry Charlotte !,
Coffee
X SUPPER.
Dreamed Sweet Breads n PopsOyers
Cocoa, Whipped Cream
| Fruit Fairy Gingerbread