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From: "kate" <>
Subject: Fw: Some Adelaide retail prices for Jan 1853
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:16:06 +1000

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Subject: Some Adelaide retail prices for Jan 1853


Hello all
Thought someone would find this info interesting. Taken from the Sth Australian Register .

Bread, 6d. the 2-lb loaf flour 31/2d - lb
Butter, fresh lb., 1s,7d Fowls Pair, 6s to8s
Cheese, ditto, 1s.3d. to 1s.6d Pigeons, ditto 3s
Milk quart, 6d ducks ditto, 7s 6d to 8s
Eggs dozen, 2s Teal ditto 4s
Pork lb 8i to 10d Quail ditto, 1s 6d
Hams, 1s 6d to 2s Turkeys, each 14s to 16s
Bacon ditto 1s 2d to 1s 6d
Cheese, each 8s to 10s

Vegetables
Potatoes lb 2 1/2d lettuce 1d each
Cabbaes each 3d to 6.1 celery, 8d scarce
Cauliflowers, none spring radishes 2d bunch
Turnips, none chillies 4d to 6d doz
Carrots bunch 4d horse radish, none
Garlic lb 1s to 1s 6d parsley 2d bunch
Onions lb 4d to 6d peas 3s 6d per peek?
Shalots, 4d per lb asparagus 1s 6d per bundle
Pumpkins 3d to 5d each French beans, 6d per lb
Cucumbers, 4d each Broad ditto, none
Water-cress bunch (looks like 1pound) Jerusalem Artichokes 6d pr lb

Fruit
apples none plums Amer. 1s - doz
quinses, none brazil nuts none
Colonial lemons none Spanish nuts, 1s. 6d per lb
Figs 1s per doz Walnuts, none
Grapes , green per lb (again looks like 1 pound)
colonial almands, none Peaches, none
Damsons, none pears, none
Water melons, none Cape gooseberies , 1s per lb
Wewwt melons, none pomegranates 3d to ;9d each
Cherries, 2s 6d per lb oranges 6d to 9d each
Gooseberries (green) 2s 6d - quart Rhubarb 5d - bundle
Raspberries 3s per lb Apricots, 3s per doz

best wishes
Kate

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