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1st Edition Antique Cookbook, A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband – With Bettina’s Best Recipes, what a delight! If you love cookbooks with historical significance, you will love this charming antique cookbook with its innocently suggestive title. The book follows the fictional lives of Bettina and Bob, newlyweds, as they eat their way through their first year of marriage. Published in 1917, by Britton Publishing Co of NY, this charmer reads like a novel. There are 152 chapters, the book is divided into the months of the year, each month has it’s own illustration.
No, you cannot live on kisses,
Though the honeymoon is sweet,
Harken, brides, a true word this is —
Even lovers have to eat.
There are menus for all occasioins, seasoned with anecdotes of family life, friendships, household hints and a bride’s budgetary concerns. A peek into the life of a homemaker before modern appliances, frozen meals and women working outside of the home. It’s a light, funny and historically revealing, and wonderfully illustrated. There are menus for the bride’s first dinner, baking days, Sunday evening tea, and holidays. A wonderful book for your collection. This book was loved and used by generations of brides, there is wear to the cover, a little hole eaten into the front page, and the back cover spine is cracked, the book is completely intact. The back cover has spots, no doubt from being put on kitchen counters covered with ingredients for that day’s recipes.
- Measures 7-7/8″ x 5-1/4″.
- 463 pp
