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to Cook Husbands, by Elizabeth Strong Worthington
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Title: How to Cook Husbands
Author: Elizabeth Strong Worthington
Release Date: August 7, 2008 [EBook #26210]
Language: English
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"They are really delicious --when properly treated."
How To Cook Husbands
By ELIZABETH STRONG WORTHINGTON
Author of "The Little Brown Dog" "The Biddy Club"
Published at 220 East 23rd St., New York by the Dodge Publishing Company
COPYRIGHT IN THE YEAR EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-EIGHT BY DODGE STATIONERY COMPANY
Dedication
To a dear little girl who will some day, I hope, be skilled in all branches of matrimonial cookery.
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A while ago I came across a newspaper clipping--a recipe written by a Baltimore lady--that had long lain dormant in my desk. It ran as follows:
"A great many husbands are spoiled by mismanagement. Some women go about it as if their husbands were bladders, and blow them up; others keep them constantly in hot water; o