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A Stuga On the Cusp of the Orust Riviera, tucked away next to a hobbit hole in the woods.

A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband With Bettina's Best Recipes - Louise Bennett Weaver,  Helen Cowles LeCron This should be a hoot, and just look at the lovely illustrations: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42868A DEDICATIONTo every other little brideWho has a "Bob" to please,And says she's tried and tried and triedTo cook with skill and ease,And can't!—we offer here as guideBettina's Recipes!To her whose "Bob" is prone to wearA sad and hungry look,Because the maid he thought so fairIs—well—she just can't cook!To her we say: do not despair;Just try Bettina's Book!Opening: "HOME at last!" sighed Bettina happily as the hot and dusty travelers left the train."Why that contented sigh?" asked Bob. "Because our wedding trip is over? Well, anyhow, Bettina, it's after five. Shall we have dinner at the hotel?""Hotel? Why, Bob! with our house and our dishes and our silver just waiting for us? I'm ashamed of you! We'll take the first car for home—a street-car, not a taxi! Our extravagant days are over, and the time has come to show you that Bettina knows how to keep house. You think that you love me now, Bobby, but just wait till you sit down to a real strawberry shortcake made by a real cook in a real home!"Half an hour later Bob was unlocking the door of the new brown bungalow. "Isn't it a dear?" cried Bettina proudly. "When we've had time to give it grass and shrubs and flowers and a vegetable garden, no place in town will equal it! And as for porch furniture, how I'd like to get at Mother's attic and transform some of her discarded things!""Just now I'd rather get at some of Mother's cooking!" grinned Bob.