Evening star., 1944-04-20

NenbloneQ week or so ago DeglnS
today and continues through April
81. The festival" turns the food
spotlight on eggs. and eggs are in
deed the most plentiful item on the
market at this time. Consumers are
being urged over and over again to
use as many eggs as they can in
place OF scarcer protein foods and
whenever possible, to store eggs in
the home for future use. If you will
just eat one more egg per. week
than you usually do, for the next
six weeks, you'll do a lot toward
helping reduce the tremendous sup
plies of eggs now in storage and en-
courage the farmers to keep up their
record egg production for another
year. If such production were to be
cut, say the experts, civilians won't
get all the eggs they need next win
ter. So eat your feast to avert a
famine-paradoXical as it may
sound!
From eggs we turn to chickens
naturally! The poultry situation
promises to be somewhat better this
week end, according to present indi-
cations. An adequate supply of
broilers and fryers is expected, and
some markets will have a few stew
ing fowl and fairly heavy bakers to
offer. Some speciality stores have
had duck or two in recently-but
there seems no way to be sure that
the very limited shipments can be
reported ahead of time.
Veal and pork are the most plenti-
full meat items, with beef and lamb
bit scarce, as they were last week.
Smoked beef tongue, however, will
be featured in some markets, and
should prove a happy choice for
variety. Serve it hot, first, with
piquant raisin sauce; then cold in
a chefs salad, and for sandwiches
in the lunch boxes.
Some raw shrimps are available,
but practically no. cooked ones.
Grab meat is good, and about the
same price as last week. Best buys
include shad-much cheaper, deal
ers predict--cod and haddock fillets,
fresh founders, porgies, croakers,
butterhsh, herring and perch. Some
sea bass and good rockf1sh will also
be on hand. There's herring roe
in 1-pound tins, if you like it, and
a few markets will have live lobster
and lobster tails to offer.
Greens head the list in the
produce line-almost every kind you
could wish, from field cress to
spinach. Now is the time to indulge
in them all-some cooked and some
raw, in crisp salads. Asparagus is
a little cheaper, but not much; it is
of fair quality. Baby carrots and
baby beets are recommended; there
is plenty of squash, both white and
yellow. Peas and snap beans are
good and there are more lima beans
on the market than there have been.
Fine artichokes, pale-green and ten
der; tomatoes, caulifower, celery
and eggplant are also suggested
buys. Cucumbers and onions are
still Scarce-as we go to press those
promised carloads of onions from
Texas have not yet been sighted
on the horizon. Maybe they will be
here in time for the weekend mar
keting-and maybe not!
Strawberries. from North Carolina
are coming in now, quite reasona-
BILE in price. Bananas and pineap-
piles and the citrus fruits-with the
exception of limes-are fairly plenti-
full. The fruit picture in general
is a dull one.
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Here and There: Meat fam
fne fears are said to be subsiding, in
the face of pork and beef supplies
considerably exceeding those of
year ago, say the authorities.
Enough meat is expected to be avail
able for the second quarter of 1914
April through June-to allow civil
ians per capita consumption at the
yearly rate of 139 pounds. This is
about Is pounds more than the pre-
war average. First-quarter per
capita consumption was at the rate
of 158 pounds. For the remaining
two quarters of 1914 per capita con-
must necessarily be lighter.
Tentative meat ALLEGATIONS indicate
an annual consumption rate of 1873
pounds for 1914, against 131 pounds
in 1943. Newcomers to the house.
hold bookshelf include a wonderful
volume of recipes by James Beard,
Fowl and Game Cookery" pub
lished by M. Barrows & Co., Inc,
New York, which contains mouth
watering ways of preparing birds
and beasts, from chicken to elk,
moose and reindeer, and Country
Colic," an amusing alphabet" of the
ills that the country-dwellers' flesh
and property are heir to, written and
illustrated by Robert Lawson and off
the presses of Little, Brown g. Co.
. ). Don't tease your son, husband
or sweetheart to send you forbidden
news of his military activities by a
prearranged family code-you are
not only asking him to lay himself
open to severe military punishment,
but you may very likely be endan-
gering his life and that of his COM
rades. DON'TS for home can
ners to remember: DON'T can
wilted, overripe or partly spoiled
foods-they won't keep; DON'T pre-
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