Evening star., 1947-01-23

It's a food editors dream come
true this week-there is no actual
scarcity of anything! I'm told you
can find all the meat you want and
the same is true of fruits and vege-
tables. There's veal, pork, beef,
lamb, smoked meats, bacon, sausage
and the luncheon cuts.
The fish supply seems equally as
good, offering your choice OF Span
ish mackerel, trout, butterflsh, rock
fish flllets, salmon steaks, haddock
and rose fish fillets (tl1e last, by the
way, is delicately tinted pink fish (,
raw shrimp and oysters.
While we're on the subject, how
often do you broil fish? Here are a
few pointers on how to broil. Pre-
heat the broiling pan on full flame
for 10 minutes. Wash the f1lletS
in cold salted water, drain well and
wipe with g damp cloth. Dust light
ly with -four, brush with butter or
oil. Place 2 inches from the heat and
broil just until fish flakes when tried
with fork; too many cooks make a
mistake of overlooking fish.
You will have a hard time max
ing your choice among all the fruits
and vegetables on hand. Our open
winter probably accounts for the ex-
cellent quality of the cooking greens,
turnip tops, rape, kale, spinach and
mustard; among the salad green's
you will find romaine, chicory, esca-
role and French endive, as well as
lettuce, ry-cabbage and celery.
Florida oranges are considerably
cheaper this week which is good
news. Strawberries are the best they
have been up to this time. Caull-
flower, too, is at it's best. Cuban pine
apples are coming in and, of course,
citrus fruits of all kinds are to be
had. The white and yellow squash
are somewhat higher in price; to-
matoes are plentiful, but the quality
is not too good. However, beets from
Texas are very fine, so are the string
beans. Florida eggplant, broccoli,
carrots and onions. In fact, the only
shortages I found in the vegetable
market were peas and watercreSs.
More and more of our prewar foods
are reappearing on the grocers'
shelves. The other day ran across
ground cu1nin seed, ground corian-
der and cardamom, onion salt, gen.
uine imported East India curry pow
der. also East India ground celery.
If you have been wondering where
to find sesame and poppy seeds for
the rolls and cookies you used to
make, they were there, too. Wild rice
has been very scarce the last few
years, but I saw some cooked ready
to-eat wild rice in tins. Also those
Brazilian mandarines in sirup that
are so nice in a fruit salad. The
little pearl cocktail onions are back,
and at the same shop there was
very nice assortment of jams, mar
malades, preserves and branded
figs, peaches, apricots, plums and
bing cherries. For your hot cakes
or waffles these winter mornings
you'll find pure maple sugar in glass
jars from Vermont. II you are in
terested in these items, I'll be glad
to tell you where they are available
If you will call me at National 5000,
extension 495.
Here and There: Making a big
comeback after wartime shortage are
canned grapefruit segments. :.
Another record crop was peaches,
80 that means there will be plenty
of dried peaches this year. :.
Again our attention was called to
the acute shortage of milk bottles.
Housewives are urged to return the
"truant" bottles to dairies and groc-