Evening star., 1961-02-23
growing areas will add to the

growing areas will add to the
heavy supplies in storage.
March is also the month to
feature eggs on the menu.
AS the weather begins to
moderate 1--WE hope), egg lay
ing increases seasonally. Sup-
plies will be both bountiful
and of good quality. Prices
are expected to be reasonable.
Milk supplies, too. will In.
crease as the season adj
vances. making milk and
dairy products of all kinds
plentiful. -
An abundance of lamb will
be coming to market this
month. reports the American
Meat Institute. It's listed as
one Of the outstanding meat
buys for the current week, In
fact. s.
High quality beef is an
other boom the shopper can
expect. Supplies are expected
to be about 4 per cent more
than year ago, with much Of
the increase in the roasting
and broiling type. s4
Pork and veal supplies will
not change appreciably from
the last month or so.
About those little extras
cranberry products and Cali:
fornia dates are both in heavy
supply. Canned ripe olives are
another holdover for March.
Peanuts and peanut products
rate a spot on the best buy
list. Peanut farmers last year .
harvested a crop II per cent
above that of 1859. The ways
of using the small nut are
legion but did you ever make
a peanut butter pie crust?
For a 9-inch pie shell use /
cup flour, "a teaspoon salt.
"a cup shortening, 3 table
spoons peanut butter and q
to 3 tablespoons cold water.
Teams nicely with a chocolate
or butterscotch filling.
Potatoes are another food
item expected to remain in
good supply as winter draws
to a close, and like the goober,
there are hundreds OF ways
to prepare them.
Weekly Specials
In addition to lamb. pre-
viously mentioned, beef con-
tinues to be a popular buy at
meat counters. The emphasis
this week is on bone-in chuck
roasts. also boneless chuck or
shoulder roaStS; rib roastS, Z
inch cut with bone-in; plate
beef, and short ribs. Ground
beef, ground chuck. stew beef,
chuck steaks with blade bone
in; sirloin, porterhouse and
round steaks are more good
beef values.
Leg of lamb, shoulder
roasts, rib, loin and shoulder
chops, round bone shoulder
chops. and breast are the
favored lamb cuts.
Butterball turkeys, weigh =
ing from 5 to 9 pounds, hen
turkeys, 10 to IL pounds, and
fryers are the poultry specials
for the week. From all indi.-
cations turkeys will be high
on the list Of poultry bargains
this year. Farmers will raise
some 20 per cent more birds
in 1861 than the 80 million
they marketed this past year,
Hams, fully cooked or the
regular smoked, are being
featured. The fully cooked
hams run IL to IA pounds. d.
You can buy the whole ham.
shank portion or the fun
shank half. The same goes for
regular smoked hams. Avail.
able, too, are center cut
smoked ham slices.
At fish counters the best
offerings are frozen, ready
to-cook perch and scallops.
medium shrimp, fresh floun-.
der and founder fillets. sea
bass and bass fillets, butter
fish. trout, blue fish, oysters
standard and selectS) and
deviled crabs.
Outstanding vegetable buys
include all purpose white
potatoes. lettuce, green pep
pers. celery, cauliflower;~
radishes, green beans and
carrots. Grapefruit, both the
white and pink meated vari-
etieS. bananas, dates. red
table grapes and Delicious
apples head the list Of fruit
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