Here's some advice in a 1922 issue of American Cookery magazine on how to keep a husband interested and in love.
The Spice of Life
To keep a husband interested and in love with her, a wife must vary her costumes, argues every woman. A simple blue gown one evening, and a somewhat vampish green one the next, is what keeps hubby fascinated.
Undoubtably that is true. But let me ask that same woman how much thought she has given to the old adage, "The way to a man's heart is through his stomach." How often does she change her menus? Or, is it pork and beans every Saturday night in the year, and the proverbial stew of Sunday's left-over dinner every Monday night? Fish, of course on Fridays, and always Wednesdays a delicatessen dinner, because she goes to play bridge every Wednesday afternoon, so hasn't the time to prepare anything else. Not much chance for variety of diet there.
Or, perhaps, she hasn't definite nights for definite things, but her range of recipes is so narrow. I have see the statement given as a fact by those who have made a study of it, that the average woman, in an American home, uses less than thirty separate recipes. Think of it, when the number of cookbooks is legion, and the magazines and newspapers print, each week, more than two thousand recipes.
Get out of your recipe rut! Give your family a change. Try adding, for instance, two new recipes a week to your menus. Even if you have your favorite way of making pie crust, and your special recipe for layer cake, experiment with a new one once in a while.
The culinary art is not behind the other arts in its progress. Benefit by it. A new dish is just as gratifying and alluring to your husband's palate, as a new dress is to his eye. Try it and see. And wouldn't it take the monotony out of planning three meals a day for every day for you, if you varied the menus with a new dish occasionally?
American Cookery (August/September, 1922)
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