This first one, or something very like it, was printed on the inside of my Grandma's Recipe Box, which I hope to inherit one day but I love the other two recipes/poems too:
RECIPE FOR HAPPY CHILDREN
1 lg field 1 pinch of brook
6 children, mixed sizes A few pebbles
2-3 dogs
Mix children and dogs well together and put them in a field, stirring constantly. Pour the brook over the pebbles. Sprinkle the field with flowers. Spread blue sky over all and bake in the hot sun. When children are very brown, they should be set in the bathtub to cool
A HAPPY HOME RECIPE
Take love and loyalty, mix thoroughly with faith. Blend it with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine and serve generous helpings daily.
TO PRESERVE A HUSBAND
Be careful in your selection, do not choose one too young, and take only such varieties as have been raised in a moral atmosphere. When once decided upon and selected, let that part remain forever and settled and give your entire time and thought to domestic use. Some insisit on keeping them in a pickle while other are constantly keeping them in hot water. But even poor varieties may be made sweet and good by garnishing with patience, well sweetened with smiles and flavored with kisses to taste. Then wrap them up in a mantle of charity, keep warm with a steady flow of devotion and serve with peaches and cream. When thus prepared, they will keep for years
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