How to Preserve a Husband

  A cookie baker in California  Aug 10, 2011
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HOW TO PRESERVE A HUSBAND

Be careful in your selection. Do not choose too young, and take only such as have been reared in a good moral atmosphere. When once decided upon, and selected, let that part remain forever settled, and give your entire thought to preparation for domestic use.

Some insist on keeping them in pickle while others are constantly getting them in hot water. This only makes them sour, hard, and sometimes bitter. Even poor varieties may be made sweet, tender, and good, by garnishing them with patience, well sweetened with smiles and flavored with kisses to taste. Then warp them in a mantle of charity, keep warm with a steady fire of domestic love and devotion, and serve with peaches and cream. When thus prepared thet will keep for years.
From a 1907 cookbook five stars

   Feb 20, 2011
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this ha sbeen around a long time I lost my copy and was searching for a new copy for some friends gettin married..thank you..:) five stars

  A cookie baker in Ankeny, Iowa  Dec 22, 2008
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I love the words on this. I think everyone should stick by this and maybe society wouldnt be what it is today, look at our grandparents. five stars

  Norma NIekamp in CA  Sep 9, 2008
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I love this essay. Almost forty years ago my mother -in- law gave me a recipe book of her best recipes and she included this one. I love its simpliciy and truth. We will be married 39 years at Thanksgiving so that is something to celebrate. five stars

  Chastity in Kansas  Jun 28, 2008
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Hi, I bought some recipe cards at a garage sale for .10 and found this poem hand written on a piece of note book paper with 2 other cake reciepes on the back. It is so old that the edges are crisp and from it being folded it fell apart in my hands. The words are a little different, but what I thought was unique is that it is signed Mrs. Higgens (after 20 years of married life) Could I have the original? By the way this is the best recipe for a marriage, especially today when most seem to be falling apart. I recommend this to all married people. five stars