Evening star., 1942-09-24


hand for this Saturday and Sunday.
Fryers, too, will be plentiful, and
a number of those nice young tur-
keys are still to be had.
Buying your chicken by the piece
is still highly recommended, es-
pecially in small households, where
each individual likes certain parts
of the bird, and too much of it goes
to waste. Getting just what you
intend to use Is always the best
form Of economy, and in this method
OF buying you are pleasing the fam
lily at the same time!
Eggs continue to soar, and pre-
dictions are that I'VE amt seen
nothin' yet" Even the little pull
lets eggs, that started of as a fine
solution to the problem, have also
risen in price-and become mighty
hard to find, all of a sudden. Al
though you must have a number
of eggs in your diet, as an all-im-
portant food, you will have to skimp
as much as you can on the use of
eggs in non-essential dishes. Omit
the rich sauces that use eggs in
quantity, and 60 light on those
desserts that also drain the sugar
supply. Make every egg you use
count to the utmost-suppose you
were In England where an egg is
more precious than q diamond
bracelet!
Fish and Cheese
Recommended FL.
Although I was told firmly the
other day by some one high in the
food field here in Washington, that
I should not urge people to eat fish,
as fish was non-existent due to labor
and shipping troubles, I still find
a plentiful supply of fine. tasty sea-
food drawn from local and nearby
waters. While much of it is bit
higher in price than in other years,
when it was ridiculously cheap, fish
is still an economical buy, and will
do much towards helping you stretch
your budget and still keep your
family on = good diet.
You can get fine founder, had
dock flllets, trout, bass, spots, croak-
ers and some rockfish and mackerel
at reasonable prices. Higher than
these, but still less expensive than
meat or eggs, In proportion, are
fresh salmon, halibut and sword
fish. Oysters are little higher than
they have been, but a good buy,
nevertheless. Shrimp is being Of
ferred at attractive prices in many
markets, and makes a wonderful
main dish when curried, creamed,
in q casserole with rice, or Newburg.
Produce Quality Lou:
Prices High
With only q few exceptions, such
as cucumbers, eggplant, green pep
pers, corn, cabbage, celery cabbage,
cauliflower and tomatoes, vegetables
are high this week end. And as the
price mounts, the quality seems to
decline. Early this week no lettuce
was available, except rather poor
iceberg; mushrooms were expensive
and very poor. The wormy summer
squash seen last week has been
replaced by q new shipment from
Florida-but even these are not too
wonderful. Broccoli is good, but
not too cheap-peas and spinach
continue high. Okra, always good
In stews, or cooked with tomatoes,
is reasonable, and young beets. par
ships, turnips and spring onions
are recommended.
Plenty Of fresh prunes are around
again this week, and shipments OF
grapes from New York have revived
that section Of the fruit stands
There are also some good Tokays
just in, IS well as the Ribier type
Fine avocados, all kinds of plums
some bananas casually just 4 lucky
findO, excellent apples Of severa
varieties, and f1ne Persian and hon.
eydew melons seem fairly reasonable
Pears, both the Seckel and Bartlett
type, are cheap and good.
One Of the victims among thos.
substitutes" we mentioned q Will,
back is white corn syrup. 1t doesn''
seem to exist in most stores. Look
like We are going to have to d.
without our sweets, willy nilly
doesn't 1t?