WAY TO TREAT A HUSBAND.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1664, 20 January 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)

WAY TO TREAT A HUSBAND.

The following is an old-fashioned housewife’s recipe for cooking a husband:—“Be sure and select him yourself, as tastes differ. Do not go to the market for him, as the best are always brought to your door. It is far better to have none unless you

will patiently learn how to cook him. A preserving kettle of the finest porcelain is best, but if you have nothing but an earthenware pipkin it will do with care. See that the linen in which you wrap him is nicely washed and mended, with the requisite number of buttons neatly sewn on. Tie him to the saucepan with a strong silken cord, called comfort, as the one called duty is apt to be weak. He is apt to fly out of the saucepan, and be

burned and crusty on the edges, since, like crabs and lobsters, you have to cook him while alive. Make a clear, steady fire out of love, neatness and cheerfulness. Set him as near this as seems to agree with him. If he splutters and fizzes, do not be anxious —some husbands do this until they are quite done. Add a little sugar in the form of what confectioners call kisses; but no vinegar or pepper on any account. A little spice improves

him, but it must be used with judgment. Stir him gently, and watch the while lest he fall too flat, and too close to the saucepan, and become useless. You cannot fail to know when, he is done. If thus treated he will be found very digestible, agreeing nicely with you and the children, and is warranted to keep as long as you wish, unless you become careless and set him in too cold a place.”

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