Evening star., 1944-05-11
Report to the Housewife

More Of those luscious ducklings
will be available for this week end
poultry dealers report, along with
increased supplies of frying chick
ems. There will also be some stew
ing fowl on hand, in case you yearn
for a real summertime bowl of
chicken salad. Eggs continue to be
plentiful and reasonable and you
will be doing patriotic job by using
them as much as possible in your
cooking and in your menus.
Butter, too, is plentiful, as it was
last week, but the cheese situation
continues weak, which is disap-
pointing to many housewives at the
moment because of the availability
of more red points with which to
purchase it. However, if you can't
get Swiss or cheddar cheese, you
may be able to make do with one
of the soft, more perishable types,
such as Munster, Camembert, Okla,
etc. These cannot be used in cook
ing, but they can be worked into
the menu, in connection with
crisp green salad, and toasted
French bread to form delicious
and filling main course.
Beef, lamb and even veal are
q bit scarcer this week-pork being
the only really plentiful meat item.
However if you shop around you
can probably manage to get just
about what you need for your fam
ily-especially if you are not too
"sot" in your ways. For instance
your meat dealer may not have liver
but he does have Sweetbreads-take
the sweetbreads and say thank
you," prettily. Or he may offer you
veal chops in place of lamb chops
1t won't make a great deal of differ
ence to accept the substitution.
Produce is more plentiful this
week than last-with good many
items coming from fairly nearby.
Asparagus from New Jersey and
Delaware, greens from the Caro-
Inas, Strawberries from the eastern
shore of Virginia, seem almost
"home grown" North Carolina also
sends us cabbages to supplement
other supplies from Georgia; tur-
nips, too, come from the Tarheel
State. South Carolina contributes
some lettuce-although most of the
iceberg type is arriving from Cali
fornia-and nice punches of small
tender beets. From Florida come
celery, egg plant, green peppers,
white, yellow and zucchini squash,
oranges, grapefruit, lines and white
and yellow corn. California sends us
lemons, avocados, caulif1ower and
crisp young carrots. Garlic from
Chile, tomatoes from Mexico, pine
apples from Cuba-all pour into
Washington markets for our pleas
ure.
Snap and lima beans are good |
buys this week; there are more |
onions arriving, with plentiful
supply of leeks and spring onions
also on hand. Only scarce items
seem to be green peas and Gu
cumbers.
We inquired about when the first
cherries from the West Coast could
be expected, and were told that
boxes of them had already arrived
in New York-where they were SELL
Ing for very high prices wholesale.
If such conditions continue, dealers
here say, it will be some time before
the favorite fruit appears in local
markets. No reports on melons as
yet, but 1t shouldn't be long now!
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Here and There: Pork sup
plies should be adequate to abun-
dant, for the next few months at
least, judging from recent develop
ments in the hog market. How
ever, present all-over supply pros
poets of ali meats should not be
interpreted to mean that meat ra-
tioning is past history, for it can
happen again. A tight feed situa-
ton is developing, livestock must
be brought in balance with the
feed supply. This means more
meat now, but may mean less later.
-. Spinach canning is expected to
reach capacity soon in Virginia,
Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania. E. Container salvage efforts
by children attending 238 elemen-
tary schools in Chicago resulted in
the collection of more than 100000
used wooden containers. Dealers