It’s the time of year for canning and preserving. My husband and I canned tomatoes last week. This week it was grape juice. But as I rinsed off the jars of dark purple juice this morning, my thoughts were not of food preservation. They were of preserving my marriage.
I once ran across directives on how to preserve a husband, long before I had a husband of my own. But while garage saling this spring with my husband and baby girl, I saw a simple platter with a similar recipe for husband preservation.
The owner laughed when I asked how much he wanted for it. “I knew someone would like that,” he said.
I quickly agreed to the couple dollars he wanted. I knew that platter belonged in my kitchen. As a reminder to work at preserving my marriage every day of the year, not just during canning season…
How to Preserve a Husband
Be careful in your selection. Do not choose too young.When selected, give your entire thoughts to preparation for domestic use.Some wives insist upon keeping them in a pickle, others are constantly getting them into hot water. This may make them sour, hard, and sometimes bitter; even poor varieties may be made sweet, tender and good, by garnishing them with patience, well sweetened with love and seasoned with kisses.Wrap them in a mantle of charity. Keep warm with a steady fire of domestic devotion and serve with peaches and cream.Thus prepared, they will keep for years.-from a platter advertising “Ball–the only modern line of canning supplies”
