Evening star., 1944-04-06
Report to the Housewife

II your purse and your points are
adequate, you can be assured of
luscious ham for your Easter dinner
this Sunday. Local markets are we'll
stocked with every type of ham that
your little heart might deSire-with
the possible exception of the fabu-
lous and expensive Smithfield va
riety - smoked, fresh, pre- cooked,
tenderized or what have you, it's
there for the purchasing. And
there's plenty Of bacon. too includ-
Ing the Canadian type, to lend CLAM
our to Easter breakfast.
Other items that will be quite
plentiful include various cuts of
fresh pork, veal and beef; there will
be about the same amount of lamb
on hand as there was last week
Sundries have been bit scarce late
ly, for some reason, but advance or
dering should assure you Of some good
liver, sweetbreads, brains or kidneys
Chickens are d little more plenti-
full, and eggs are practically flood
ing the market. In fact, rumor has
1t that many merchants plan to CO.
operate in a "springtime egg fes-
tival" during the week of April 20
to 27 to push the sales of eggs to
consumers and help clear the heavy
supplies.
The fish lineup for tomorrow
looks most promising. Potomac
shad, both buck and roe. head the
list, with excellent rockfish and
fresh founders running second and
third. Also highly recommended
are porgies, perch, butterfsh, had
dock fillet, Spanish and Boston
mackerel, herring, carp, sea bass, red
snapper and croakers-an eSpe-
cially heavy run of the last men,
toned being expected. Therell be
practically no shrimp, but fair sup
plies of crab and lobster meat will
be available. oysters are still good
there's an r in April are
reaching the end of their season as
far as consumer interest is con-
Cerned.
That asparagus we told you about
last week has finally arrived and
prices should be really lower this
week end. The stalks are of good
quality and edible almost in entirety.
Shipments are coming from both
California and South Carolina. A
very few baskets of cucumbers
reached town this week, but were
Immediately snapped up by speciality
stores and restaurants.
Most plentiful in the vegetable line
are all kinds of potatoes, kale, COL
lards, mustard and turnip greens,
landcress, rape and spinach; snap
beans, celery and cabbage from
Florida, tomatoes. beets and turnipS.
Also good buys are mushrooms,
green and red sweet peppers, Cali
fornia and Florida peas, cauliflower,
carrots, lima beans and squash.
For your salad bowl you will find
big supplies of Boston and Iceberg
lettuce, romaine, escarole, chicory,
endive, young red radishes, tender
shallots and scallions, and crisp
green watercress. (Makes you hun
CRY just to think aboutD There is
even plentiful supply of garlic
with which to rub the bowl!
Fruits show little change. Dealers
hope for better berries from Louisi-
ana than finally appeared last week
end, and new shipment of bananas
has been received. Rhubarb is still
in demand, but the rest of the fruit
picture is more practical than in
teresting - grapefruit, oranges and
lemons, very few lines. Pineapples
are undersized and not too good
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Here and There: Once again
reinsurance is given by the Food and
Drug Administration on Easter egg
dyes. The law REQUIRES that all coal