Author: WEAVER, LOUISE BENNETT, LECRON, HELEN COWLES
Title: A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband with Bettina's Best Recipes
Description: New York: A. L. Burt, 1917. First Edition (?). Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 1 1/2; 479+ pages; Hard cover is tan with black lettering on spine. Covers have sunning, rubbing, bumping, fraying and light spotting. Pages are intact, but with a weak gutter. Former owner's name neatly written inside front cover. Some pages have some spatter or fingerprints. Can easily tell which were the favorite recipes by the owner, those pages show many signs of loving use, such as prints, and splatters. B/w frontispiece. Illustrated with b/w drawings throughout the book. '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'. Great blast from the past.. Good .

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