Evening star., 1945-05-17
Report to the Housewife

With the sudden onslaught O.
warmer weather, youn be glad tc
know that those summertime stand.
bys, crab meat and lobster, will be
available at more reasonable prices
Tor the week end. In fact, severa,
markets will be featuring top-grade
whole Holsters, already cooked fol
you. All you have to do is take them
home, chill them some more ano
either pick out the meat to use as
salad, or split them open, crack the
claws, and serve them "as is" with
cucumber mayonnaiSe, and sliced
raw tomatoes and lettuce. Shrimps
are doubtful, but some dealers are
hopeful that a few will come in be-
fore the close Of the marketing pc
riod.
Other fish buys will include plenty
OF trout, a new and good supply of
roe shad-expensive, though-Bos-
ton mackerel, herring, croakers, sea
bass, fresh founder and most of the
filleted items.
Meats will be even scarcer than
last week-if you can picture such a
thing, with only a very little beef
lamb and veal to be had by the early
shoppers. There's even less pork on
hand, although some lucky and per-
severing souls have been able to
unearth a half pound of bacon here
and there. AT the final minute last
week small shipment or two of
chickens. turkeys and ducks ap-
peared in some local markets-and
disappeared so fast that I never
even heard about them until today |!
Dealers do not seem too optimistic
about a repeat on this, but there is
always possibility, so be on the
lookout for anything that resembles
a mob scene and is not a cigarette
line-it just MIGHT be a poultry
arrival! (They used to apply the
term hunt and push" to the meth
cd of tipping employed by newspaper
folk-now it most certainly becomes
the synonym for wartime food buy
ingD
Although some grades of eggs
continue short, there will be a
good supply of cottage cheese on
hand to make up for the scarce
protein foods. Butter and mar
garine are in good supply-mainly
because most of us can't afford the
required points-and with the IN
creased values placed on cooking
fats we'll probably see plentiful
stocks of those before long.
The berry season is beginning to
really open up, with the first blue
berries adorning the stalls, fanked
by old-fashioned huckleberries, dew
berries, and the last-of -the-season
Strawberries. Cherries are expected
in couple of weeks, and although
the little early peaches now on
hand are only harbingers of better
ones to come, they do nicely for
cooking, and are sweet enough to
require very little sugar. Plneap-
pies from Cuba, prickly pears,
plenty of apples, some bananas,
good lines, lemons and oranges and
avocados of low quality and high
price make up the rest of the
fruit picture.
In the way of vegetables, there
Is pretty nearly everything to be
had. All the salad-bowl ingredi-
ents you can imagine; fine lima
beans in the pod; excellent string
beans; fresh sweet peas; all kinds
Of summer squash, including zuc-
chini from the Carolinas; new 20
tatoes; tomatoes from Mexico,
Texas and Florida; plenty of greens
from nearby areas, and fine car
rOtS and y0llnp heets arc all recoro
mended. Caulif1ower and broccoli
are fairly good, while cabbage is
selling very reasonably, and is of
nice quality-just right for cole slaW
or health" salad. There are
few mushrooms about, but they are
high in price. Asparagus is still
tops in popularity with most buyers.
and there will be plenty of it for
the week end. Sweet corn, both
white and yellow, is another best
seller.
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