How to Cook Husbands" is Elizabeth Strong Worthington's salty advice on marital relations from the year 1898. "It is a good cook that makes an appetizing dish out of poor material," she writes, and the idea here is to concoct a "delicious husband out of little or nothing." The recipe goes like this: (1) Take one headstrong woman of 34, Miss Constance Leigh. (2) Stir in two suitors -- the handsome bounder, Mr. Chance, and the proper and practical Mr. Gregory. (3) Pepper with Miss Leigh's kitchen wisdom applied to courtship and marriage. Don't stew a man, don't grill him, or jab him to see if he's tender, that is, but add plenty of sugar. And if he turns out tough, anyway, "open the kitchen door, and heave him in the ash barrel." The question is which entree Miss Leigh will choose for her own main course, and what she'll make of her husband in this comic romance that gives a new meaning to home, home on the range.
The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives" (1900) is Elizabeth Strong Worthington's follow-up to her comic guide book, "How to Cook Husbands." This time, the spoon points to the man in the kitchen, and the book tells how he should make a dish of his wife. A wife is never to be raked over the coals, for example. And he'd best keep a lid on troubles at home: "If a wife is allowed to boil at all, she will always boil over." The table is set with two romances that illustrate how the advice works. One is the continuing affair of Constance Leigh and Randolph Chance from "How to Cook Husbands." The other is a tale of odd fusion between the "unbaked" Nannie Branscome and chicken farmer Steve Loveland. One line describes their relationship (and the taste of the book): "'When are you going to let go of my nose, Nannie?' he said in his accustomed quiet tone." Worthington's humor is surprisingly contemporary, and her advice still works for any man who wants to get steamy.
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