A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband: With Bettina's Best Recipes
by Louise Bennett Weaver, Helen Cowles LeCron
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No, you cannot live on kisses,Though the honeymoon is sweet,Harken, brides, a true word this is -Even lovers have to eat. This charming vintage cookbook, with its innocently suggestive title, reads like a novel as it follows the fictional lives of a pair of newlyweds. Join Bettina and Bob as they eat their way through their first year of marriage, from the bride's first real dinner and a Sunday evening tea to baking day, a rainy night meal, and Thanksgiving festivities. Menus for all show more occasions are seasoned with anecdotes about family life, friendships, household hints, and budgetary concerns. show lessTags
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Bettina is a newlywed, eager to feed her husband, Bob. Every chapter focuses on an opportunity for Betty to take care of Bob and it usually includes food and the preparation there of. The recipes and preparation instructions are included in detail. But, to be fair, A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband... isn't just about feeding hubby Bob. Bettina is teaching the local neighborhood wives how to feed their men and keep house as well. It could be a luncheon where Betty teaches the attending ladies how to prepare the meal and how to serve it properly as well. Betty is very proud of her meal plans (and seems to have an obsession with white sauce). She also likes to display her frugality and creativity. She is forever mentioning how she had show more to plan a meal with very little funds or advanced notice. Each chapter is a variation of the same theme of showcasing Betty's ingenuity so, be prepared, it gets a little repetitious. Even though housekeeping is in the title, there is very little said about cleaning, doing laundry, or the like at 1107 Carberry Avenue. Bettina does mention getting out a stain or two. show less
This is a combination cookbook-homemaking-novel book. The story revolves around a young woman named Bettina who had learned quite a bit about cooking, baking and managing on a shoestring before she married the lucky Bob. Each chapter contains another episode in Bob and Bettinas first year of married life - making curtains, planning a picnic, celebrating Christmas etc. The poem at the start of the first chapter gives you the idea...
JUNE
No, you cannot live on kisses,
Though the honeymoon is sweet,
Harken, brides, a true word this is, --
Even lovers have to eat.
JUNE
No, you cannot live on kisses,
Though the honeymoon is sweet,
Harken, brides, a true word this is, --
Even lovers have to eat.
1st ed. Clements Longone Cookery Collection. "The Romance of Cookery and Housekeeping." Wonderful illustrations. Note illustrator's spelling different than later editions. DW for illus only.
Creepy and kitschy.
1st ed. 2nd book in series. Terrific illustrations
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