Evening star., 1944-05-04

uef HOISelS are OF nneSt quality
will be reasonable In price, and art
arriving In increasing supply
Housewives who have become sunl
In the monotony of chicken anc
pork will make tracks for the near.
est poultry seller to obtain a plump
duckling for Sunday dinner. AND
here are suggestions for prepar-
ing 1t: tA
If the duckling you choose is very
small, SINCE and clean it, split II
down the back, wash and dry it, ano
rub 1t all over with olive oil
Sprinkle with salt and pepper Broil
skin side down on rack in a pre-
heated broiler, allowing 20 to 80
minutes total cooking time.
II the duckling is a large one
and you prefer to roast it, SINCE
and clean 1t, rub salt in cavity and
stuff lightly with one peeled onion
a few pieces of apple and a stalk OF
celery with few leaves left on. Oil
skin with olive oil. Place breast up
on 4 rack In reaster, and sprinkle
with salt and pepper. Roast, un-
covered, in moderate oven, allow
ing Is to 20 minutes per pound
Basic frequently with drippings to
which orange juice. pineapple juice
or apple juice has been added.
Serve the duck with sauteed pine
apple slices, broiled orange slices or
tart applesauce-according to which
type OF juice you have used in the
basting. And take a bow from the
family!
To return to the general food pic
ture: Meat supplies locally are
about the same as last week, with
pork and veal heading the list, beef
little scarcer than it has been,
and lamb scarcest of all Rumors to
the contrary, lamb supplies are at
very lowest ebb just now, but siZ-
able increase is expected within two
or three weeks as the effect of the
spring slaughtering is felt.
Chickens - especially fryers - are
In good supply, and eggs continue
most plentiful and reasonable.
Fish are showing even more gains
in both quantity and quality. Fresh
founders, haddock and perch fillet,
porgies, butterflsh, croakers and
herring are all inexpensive. Chesa-
peake Bay shad is still going strong,
along with fresh sea bass, fresh
trout and Boston mackerel. A few
more shrimps, both cooked and raw,
will be available this week end and
crab meat is more plentiful and
cheaper than it has been.
News in the produce line is the
first Golden Bantam corn from
Texas and Florida, sweet and tender
little ears, These are to be found
mostly in the specially markets.
Asparagus from New Jersey is ex-
pected in time for the week end
buying-it is always good and
"right-out-of the garden" in flavor.
Despite dealers hopes, and ship
pers' predictions, onions are still
scarce locally, although there are
admittedly more to be had than we
have seen in recent months. Carrots
are flooding the vegetable stalls.
nice small golden ones from Califor-
mia and Texas. Spinach, kale, cab
bage cuttings, turnip tops, collards,
poke salad and rape, with some
dandelion green's to be found for
the looking, form a spring tonic"
lineup that Is most refreshing
Fine peas from California, baby
beets from Texas and South Caro-
lima, caulifiower, cabbage, and snap
beans are recommended. Available
In lighter supply are broccoli,
squash, mushrooms, eggplants, lima
beans, green peppers and cucum-
bers. Lettuce has been only fair in
quality this week.
Fruits continue dull, with pine
apples, lines, avocados, lemons,
some bananas, rhubarb and me-
dium-good strawberries about the
only additions to the old standbys,
apples, oranges and grapefruit.
Here and There: Loos
mixed waste paper is not wanted in
the paper salvage campaign-but
every newspaper, magazine, cor
rugated box and siZeable piece OF
brown paper is vitality important to
save Tin cans are needed more
than ever-and every can you sal
wage properly Is just another tiny
paving block in the road to victory
Your tin can may play an important
roAe In anything from battleshir
10 a tiny morphine container
And those fats that you save Sc
carefully, and turn in so faithfully
do their part in making precious
medicines, nylon for parachutes
depth charge releases, and hundreds
Of other vital military essentials. al
well as the explosives that are bat.
tering the enemy day and night :.
Feed waste Is still form Of sabo.
tage-all the more dangerous be.
cause 1t seems so undramatic
More Toe cream, by roughly Is mil.
hon gallons, and richer than 1t ha.
been-is expected to result from tht
VITA action taken May /, under
which manufacturers of frozer
dairy foods In May and June may
produce more than at any time since
February 1943. This step is taker
TO help assure full utilization o.
heavy production of milk in MAY
and June The same step ha!
been taken with regard to cheddal
cheese, production of which will b.
increased for that period. Gooe
news for cheese lovers ;. More but
ter, too, Is scheduled in line with thu
other items On the other sid.
of the picture we find that WFl
suggests as motto, Infants and In
valids First" when it comes Il
evaporated milk. Since quantities
Of this type of milk must go to th'
armed forces, civilian supplies art
short, and should be reserved TO
those who really need them. Con
venient as milk in cans is for feed
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