Evening star., 1946-05-02
Report to the Housewife

Marketmen look doleful Wnen
asked about meats for this week
end and predict 1t will be harder
than ever to find the cut Of your
choice. There is little beef, some
veal and small amount of lamb in
town, but this must be stretched to
cover a large demand-and. there is
q limit! Pork is still almost non
sxistent-this applies particularly to
yuch items as hams and bacon.
To add to our difficulties, chickens,
after having been so plentiful that
they almost glutted the market, have
now Joined the scarce class, and are
going to be rather hard to get in
many stores. BY diligent search
you may discover a few ducks and
an occasional turkey, but they are
not in large supply, by any means.
! Fish. on the contrary, are abund-
ant, and If you choose this method
Of obtaining your proteins. you
should have no trouble at all. New
to the local scene are fancy rockf1sh
fillets, all done up in tidy packages,
cleaned and ready for the pan.
There'u be shad and shad roe,
croakers, butterfsh, Boston mackerel
and trout in large supply. Sword
fish steaks, too, are recommended.
Soft shell crabs are seen more gen.
orally, and there are good clans,
and plenty of crab meat. Shrimp are
very scarce. Lobsters and frozen
lobster tails are to be had for a
price.
Eggs will be up a little, this week,
but there are still lots of them. But
ter. oils and fats same as last week
and all those weeks before! Cheese
supplies seem to be improving some
what, with new arrivals of New York
State aged cheddar and more of the
fancy varieties, such as Bel Paese,
smoked cheeses, Camembert and so
on. There is plenty of cottage cheese,
whipping cream, coffee cream-in
fact of all dairy products except
butter.
AS usual. we turn for brightness
to the produce stands. Dealers re-
port that the market is slow this
week. with the result that there is
an abundance of almost everything,
at generally reasonable prices. As
paragus is now coming from New
Jersey and the Eastern Shore, and
the cost per bunch has dropped
tremendously. String beans are
also recommended items. Peas from
the Carolinas and California are
yours for the choosing, together
with Zucchini, white and yellow
squash, excellent corn from Florida,
okra, cucumbers, fine watercress,
lima beans, broccoli, cabbage, cauli-
flower, celery and eggplant. Esca-
role. iceberg and garden lettuce, ro-
maine, green peppers, radishes,
spring and new crop onions are all
good buys. Tomatoes are small, but
red and juicy, and mushrooms are
still of good size and quality.
: Fruits are much the same as last
week-honeydews from Chile, pine
apples from Florida and Puerto
Rico, rhubarb from nearby, straw
berries from the Carolinas and the
Norfolk area, and some bananas
from the Tropics. Grapefruit and
lemons are fairly plentiful, oranges
are light in supply, lines very
scarce. Apples are also almost i'm
possible to find.
Here and There: Is there an
ailergy in your home? And are
you trying to spare the wheat and
use other grains? An answer to
both problems lies in the neat little
booklet of "Allergy Recipes" OBJ
tainable from the Quaker Oats Co.,
Chicago 4, Ill. Besides making use
OF oats in many dishes the group
includes recipes utilizing barley,
corn meal. hominy grits and so on.
While the scarcity of bread,
salad dressings and some other in