Evening star., 1946-02-28

Local markets seem to be in q
midseason doldrum of some kind
little or no change is noted in sup
plies from those of last week, and
there have been no really exciting
newcomers to the counters and
stalls.
Unless, perhaps, two items in the
fish line make news. These are
frozen, cleaned and headed buck
shad and frozen, cleaned and head
ed Boston mackerel. Ready for the
oven, these should be welcomed by
busy housewives. They follow the
trend set some weeks ago by the
frozen trout, prepared in a similar
manner-there will be more of those
this week, too. Other finny foods
include a limited supply of fresh
roe and buck shad, sea bass, fluke,
porgies, croakers, fresh trout, rock
fish, butterfsh, mackerel and perch,
cod and founder fillets. There is
little or no crab meat, a limited
supply of cooked shrimp, some nice
lively Holsters and plenty Of oysters.
Chickens of all kinds are selling
like hot cakes-from the young
"spring broilers" to the plump and
matronly Stewing fowl. Some tur-
keys are also available, but these are
not being offered as freely as before
because of the lack of demand.
People are funny--when turkeys
were banned to the housewife be-
cause OF military needs, the average
woman would have begged, bor-
rowed or stolen to obtain one. Now
that they are plentiful, they no
longer hold the allure of the rare
and unobtainable-if orchids and
minks were dime a dozen no one
would bother with them, either!
Reasonable supplies of beef will
be on hand this week end. Veal is
very scarce, as is most pork. Ex-
ception to this lies in the number
OF Boston butts on the market
Some stores will have slab bacon in
small quantities but, in general,
bacon, especially sliced, is still hard
to get. Lamb is improving in guam
tity and also in quality.
Eggs are seen in abundance, but
will be slightly higher than in re-
cent weeks. Butter and margarine
are still scarce. Flour stocks have
more or less returned to normal.
Sugar is still a rarity-eXcept for
brown and confectioner's, which
don't fill SO many normal needs.
Plenty of milk and coffee cream
about-heavy cream a bit shy. Sour
cream, cottage cheese, cream cheese
and other cheeSes are to be had for
the searching.
King and Temple oranges have
been supplemented with wonderful
tangelos from Florida. Grapefruit
from the Isle of Pines has come in.
to join the ranks of pink -meated
fruit from Texas. Good Valencia
oranges, plenty of juice oranges,
lemons and lines are available.
Otherwise the fruit market is a bit
on the dull side, with only pine
apples, rhubarb, avocados, bananas,
Florida Strawberries (not as good
as earlier in the season., apples and
a few pears to be recommended.
No asparagus as yet, but floods of
spring onions, leeks and chives; all
three, according to dealers, have
been selling like mad during the
dearth of regular onions. There
are more brown onions coming in
now, and few of the big Spanish
type have also been seen. Good
snap beans, peas, caulif1ower, broc-
coli, celery, escarole, lettuce, Texas
beets, green peppers, spinach, kale
and collards are offered. Cucum-
bers, eggplant and lima beans are
on the light side. Tomatoes, yellow
squash, mushrooms, radishes and
celery cabbage are other items
worth investigating.
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