A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband: With Bettina's Best Recipes - Softcover

Weaver, Louise Bennett; LeCron, Helen Cowles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486488713 ISBN 13: 9780486488714

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2012

Synopsis

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 occasions are seasoned with anecdotes about family life, friendships, household hints, and budgetary concerns.
Originally published in 1917, this volume offers a delightful look at homemaking before the advent of sophisticated appliances and fast food as well as the modern reality of women's work outside the home. Unintentionally funny and historically revealing, the whimsically illustrated narrative abounds in simple and surprisingly relevant recipes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0486488713
• ISBN 13: 9780486488714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480