Salads Are In Demand On Warm Sunny Days

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30365, 14 February 1964, Page 15

Salads Are In Demand On Warm Sunny Days

[By Our Grocery Correspondent]

Salads are high on the menu on the warm, sunny days we have been having this week and grocers are finding there is a bigger demand for cooked ham, luncheon meats, and mayonnaise. Other warm-weather lines —jellies, fruit extracts, fruit juices, and ice-cream—are all selling readily. Lines for home preserving

are beginning to move at last after a slow- start This has been a late growing season, and home gardens are only just producing crops. Canned Fish.—Lack of import licences for canned fish means New Zealand fish canners once again have the opportunity of developing lines for the local market. Local canneries had the same chance some years ago, but they failed to hold the market when imported lines were readily available again. Recently several new lines from local canneries have been successful on the New Zealand market. Now an Auckland cannery has announced more new lines. These are Jib cans of school run mullet, ocean trout, filleted trevalli and smoked kippered fillets. These should retail at 2s 3d to 2s 6d a can. Trial packs are being market tested. Instant Stock.—Nestles are about to market instant beef and instant chieken stock. Granulated and packed in jars, these stocks can be used as broths or to boost the. flavour of soups, casseroles,- steaks, minces, curries and other dishes. Suggested retail price is 2s 9d a jar. Cordial Extract. Ballins have introduced a new pack for cordial extract. It is a sachet with enough extract to make one large bottle of cordial and sells for 6d a pack.

Dates.—Just before Christmas a Californian dessert date, packed in a lOoz plastic, cup, appeared on the market. This has been very popular because of quality . and rice. In the past Iran and Iraq have supplied most dates for the New Zealand market, but with this new line there could be a change.

New Meat Pack.—Pixie brand, from a Hamilton cannery, now has a new line, savoury chicken and veal with carrots, peas and rice, on the market. It is a heat-and-sefve line, attractively labelled and packed in a 15oz can. It should sell for about 3s 6d.