| Show LAID BY FOR THE WINTER housewives of early new york dissatisfied with less than a six months supply the eleventh hour or rather six rush to the delicatessen store that marks the approach of dinner in these days of frenzied housewifery would have seemed a strange madcap phenomenon to the good housewives of old new york they would have felt ill provided should they have hav had less than six als months provision ioD provisions provis in the larder according to the memory of one small boy of seventy five years ago the thrifty dutch folk who lived along tile the west side le of what is now downtown new york laid in stores stored in october and no november ember to last until april or may they bought a quarter of beef a hog or a sheep to furnish the pieces de resistance of the winters meals the alie beet beef was corned or smoked the pork and mutton was similarly cured and put away the smoking was done in public smoke houses maintained for profit A barrel of hour flour two or t aree of apples and potatoes added tile the vegetable content to the menus other supplies to lend variety were laid by in lesser quantities all sorts of farm products were purchasable in tho the fall at minli minimum nuin prices because at that time many sailing vessels and barges came down the river from upstate laden with stores As winter and the closing of the river approached the farmers an and merchants grew anxious to dispose of their stocks all and the consequently bought at an advantage which they were not slow to take new york evening san |
