Evening star., 1946-02-20
Report to the Housewife

How about nice plump turkey
for that holiday dinner on Washing
tons Birthday? There1l be more
OF the nice, medium sized birds
available in local markets this week,
and you can tell the children that
your turkey is the 1916 version of the
wild ones with which young George
is sure to have celebrated. Cut
canned cranberry sauce into hatchet
shapes, even if you don't believe that
cold legend about the "I-cannot-tell-
allie, 1-did-it-with my little -hatch-
et," and use oysters for stuffing: It's
said the Father of His Country liked
them, too.
If your household isn't large
enough to go for turkey, there'n be
plenty OF chickens around, including
stewing fowl, fryers and bakers. More
markets are selling chicken by the
piece. too. Some ducks can be found
in speciality markets. Eggs are still
plentiful and priced about the same
as last week.
Meat shows little change, with beef
bit shy. and veal even shyer. There
is more lamb to be seen and dealers
predict that supplies of this meat
will continue to increase. Both
fresh and smoked pork products are
scarce, although there is plenty of
sausage of various kinds being Of
fered.
Grab meat has staged disappear
Ing act, along with shrimps. If you
ask prettily, at some of the fancier
fish stalls, you may get some nice
little Holsters, alive and kicking-and
expensive. Better buys in the fish
lineup include croakers, butterfish,
buck and roe shad, Spanish mack
erel, a little salmon and some hall
but, trout, bluefish and sea bass.
Good supplies of perch, cod and
founder fillets are expected.
In the produce line, only cucum-
berS and garden lettuce seem to be |
really scarce. Even the onion situ-
alton is beginning to improve with
shipments of both white and brown
varieties reaching town from Illi-
nois. When the new crop of cucum-
bers starts coming in, shortly, from
Florida the perennial favorite will
be back aplenty. Packaged spinach
was offered in some markets last
week and was eagerly snapped up,
despite its being a bit more ex-
pensive than the loose type, dealers
say. This spinach is picked over
carefully, all wilted and poor leaves
discarded, and the thick, woody
stems removed-it is just about
ready for a quick wash and into the
pot. Tomatoes have been packaged
in this manner for some time, and
many marketmen seem to think
that the packaged product in fresh
fruits and vegetables is the com
Ing thing" incidentally, for the
first time in weeks there are good
loose tomatoes to compare with the
ones packed in cartons; these come
from Florida and are red, ripe and
delicious.
A newspaper report says that in
England punches of fresh asparagus
gre selling at S12 per bunch. These
Ere probably hothouse. Local mar
ketmen predict that our first fresh
asparagus of the season should hit
town around March /, and, of
course, it won't sell for any such
stupendouS sum, even though it may
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us. To get back to earth, there are
fine peas, snap beans and limas
this week, fresh mint-mint sauce
for that leg of lamb-celery root,
for salads and as a vegetable; arti-
chokes, Florida eggplant, Texas
broccoli, spring onions and shallots
from California, radishes, escarole,
romaine, chicory and plenty of ice
berg lettuce. Pascal celery is still
going strong, together with the first
new potatoes from Nebraska and
red cabbage from Iowa.
Strawberries, rhubarb, apples, ba-I