Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-02
PRICES MARKETS
'Possum Made a Feature of
the Offerings Lately.
SERVED WIrHsoYsrERs
Ia1U
BUT LITTLE CHANGE IN FRESH
MEAT QUOTATIONS.
Wild Ducks Plentiful, but Held at
High Figures--Poultry
and Fish.


tets MANY of these toothsome animals
were SUSPENDED over one of the game stalls
in Center market This fact prompted u
Star reporter to ask the dealer if baked
| 'possum is becoming fashionable dish
at is for n fact" was the dealers reply.
You would be surprised to see some of the
heightened folks who send US their orders
for opossums. For long time these ami
mails have been known as the negroes favor
lite dish but now the French chefs nave
evolved process of preparing 'possums for
the table which makes them up-to-date
in the deiicatessen class. l believe they are
served in some new-fangled fashion with
oysters
While the dealer was discussing 'possum
several old colored men who had been at
tracted by the display lined up in front of
the stall, and with visions of the animals
roasted to a juicy turn in their minds, lis
tened to what he was saying. After the
dealers remark about oyster dressing one
of the old-timers turned to his mate and
said:
II likes 'em de way old Ant Nancy used
ter cook EN- Baked brown plenty OBJ
gravy an de sweet 'taters. Go long, honey,
or I'll drap dead.
Speaking of delica lessen, there is another
feature of the Washington markets which
is growing in favor with department clerks
who keep bachelors hall' or others whose
housekeeping is of the iightest order TINS
displayed home-cooked foods, such as ham,
| Goldfish and chicken croquettes, chicken
loaf. veal loaf, ham loaf and tongue loaf,
Philadelphia pepper pots, chicken salad,
head cheese. spiced beef, scrapple, cooked
| hominy, mush and other like dishes galore
Rabbits Not Plentiful.
The display of rabbits is particularly fine,
although the little animals are not over
plentiful, and they sell readily at 20 and %
cents apiece. One game dealer had an ex-
eeptionally large fat rabbit hanging In front
| of his stand, in noticeable contrast as to
| size and quality with a string of Maryland
and Virginia rabbits
THAT fellow said the dealer, pointing
| to the big rabbit. ''is a 1District product
You know we Washingtonians say the Dis
| trict always produces big things. Well that
| is one of them. A young man trapped that
| raj bit near an old graveyard near the In
| dustrial Home School, beyond Georgetown
| [ reckon the reason he is so big and fat IS
! because he had plenty of turnip tops to feed
upon. -
| An erstwhle homely dish which is now
| being placedton the tables of the rich and
affiuent is the old German number known
| as ''speck and kraut in palmer language
| the dish is simply sauerkraut and fresh
pork boiled together. the meat being termed
| by the Germans "speck.f Late fall kraut
( is quoted at cents quart
OuailS are scarce, there being some snip
ments to this market from Virginia, West
| Virginia and Tennessee The birds are
| selling at s. a. dozen and are in demand.
Mountain squirrels are bringing 20 cents
apiece; fat opossums. 10 cents apiece;
| pheasants. $3.50 pair; frogs legs, 70
| cents dozen; home SQUADS, % cents apiece.
| Wild ducks are plentiful and of excel
| lent quality, the game dealers say. cam
| vasbacks are quoted at 81 and s. a pair;
| redheads, 50 and 49, ma1lards, $3.50 and
ST. and common ducks. 81 per pair. Stand
ard oysters are quoted at 81 and selects
| at $50 per gallon. .aoas.- -
Quotations at Fish Stalls.
The winter fish market is attractive and
| the supply adequate The following prices
were quoted: Spanish mackerel, 10 to 20
| cents a pound; sea trout, 10 to 12R cents
| pound; perch, from 10 to 20 cents a
pound; founders, 10 to 10 cents pound;
haddock, 6 to cents pound: sea bass.
| 1871 to 90 cents a pound; sheepshead. 10
| to 1919 cents a pound; carp, and 10
! cents; pike, 10 to 1917 cents; catfish 10 to
| 12k cents; halibut, Is and 20 cents, and
cod 10 to 1917 cents a pound.
| Turkeys are selling at the general price
| of 20 cents pound; chickens, 10 to II
| cents; geese, 16 cents, and ducks Is cents
| pound.
| There has been no change lately in the
| retail prices of meat. In the wholesale
| meat market lean beef was quoted at a
| slightly lower figure than prevailed last
| week az .
| The fruit and vegetable markets both
| present a bright and appetizing Decem-
| Der aspect. The prices quoted by dealers
| follow: Egg plants, 10 to % cents apiece;
| cymblins, ) to 10 cents apiece; Brussels
| sprouts, l5 cents a.boxa cucumbers, to
| Is cents apiece; caulif1ower, 10 to 20
| cents head; cranberries 10 to 20 cents
a quart; cabbage lwhite), to 10 cents
| head; red 10 to % cents a head; sayoys,
5 to 10 cents a head; celery, to 10 cents
| a stalk; parsnips, 10 cents a quarter peck;
| spinach, cents quarter peck; kale, 10
| cents a peck; satisfy cents bunch;
l k~ ao1r ~ NAr1 TO n
| ter peck: turnips {white and Yellow, 8
! cents a quarter peck; watercress, 5 cents
I box; lettuce, to 10 cents head;
radishes, punches for 10 cents; spring
| onions, 3 punches for cents; escarara, 8
| and 10 cents a head; endives, s to 10 cents
| head; leeks, 3 to 10 cents bunch;
small white onions, 20 cents a quarter
| peck; carrots, 10 cents quarter peck;
| SQUASH 3 cents pound; pumpkins, to
| 25 cents apiece; string beans, 20 cents a
quarter peck; peppers, 25 cents a dozen;
tomatoes 10 to 20 cents pound
Fruit and Grapes.
| Apples, to 10 cents a quarter peck;
tangierines, 20 to 40 cents a dozen; man
| darines, 20 to 40 cents a dozen; grape
fruit, 8 to 10 cents each; pineapples. 10
to 20 cents each; Florida oranges. 20 to
40 cents a dozen; bananas 10 to % cents
| dozen; grapes-Concords, 10; catawbas,
20; Niagaras, rs cents a basket; Malagas.
| Is to 25 cents pound. Pears, winter
Neilis. so to rs cents dozen; cooking
pears, Is cents a quarter peck.
The prices below were quoted at the
delicatessen stalls: Home pigs
| feet, pounds for 25o cents; head cheese
| 90 cents pound; pressed eorned beef. 20
| cents a pound; spiceda beef. 20 cents;
| picked tripe, cent?; CHICKEN salad. SO
ham loaf, from 20 to 40 cents pound:
| scrapple, 10 cents pan: hush, 10 cents
a pan, three for 20 cents: cooked hominy,
| 8 cents a quart. 'A1ii
Two Killed in Railway Wreck.