How To Cook a Husband Circa 1934
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- 100 minutes to make
- Serves 2
This is from Good Housekeeping magazine 1983. Credited to "Mrs. A. Hutchings Frith, from Bermuda's Best Recipes, Warwick Cookbook Fund"
Ingredients
- "A good many husbands are entirely spoiled by mismanagement in cooking, and so are not tender and good. shopping list
- Some women keep them too contstantly in hot water; others freeze them; shopping list
- Others put them in a stew; others keep them constantly in a pickle. shopping list
- It cannot be supposed that any husband will be good and tender if managed this way, but they are truly delicious if properly treated. shopping list
- Don't keep him in the kettle by force, as he will stay there himself if proper care is taken; if he should sputter and fizz, don't be anxious--some husbands do this. shopping list
- Add a little sugar, the variety that confectioners call "kisses", but on no account add vinegr or pepper. shopping list
- A little spice improves him, but it must be used with judgment. shopping list
- Do not try him with something sharp to see if he is becoming tender. shopping list
- Stir him gently lest he lie too long in the kettle and become flat and tasteless. shopping list
How to make it
- If you follow those directions, you will find him very digestible, agreeing nicely with you, and he will keep as long as you want to have him."
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Clever!
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Very cute!!
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