Uncle John and Aunt Lucy get stormstayed, and Bettina teaches us how to make peanut butter sandwiches

In chapter 9 of A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband, Bob and Bettina go to visit Uncle John and Aunt Lucy for the day (how they got there without a car, I'm not sure); Uncle John and Aunt Lucy drive them back to town, but then it storms and the relatives end up staying overnight.

"'Oh, I'm so glad you'll really stay!' said Bettina. 'Now tell me what you like for breakfast!'
'Anything you have except those new fashioned breakfast foods,' Uncle John replied. 'I might feed 'em to my stock, now, but not to a human being.'"

Uncle Bob may not like corn flakes, but he doesn't seem to mind eating supper of a "slice of jellied beef on head lettuce, served with salad dressing, and its fresh crisp potato chips. And the nasturtium and green leaf lay beside them. 'Have a radish and a sandwich, Uncle John,' said Bettina."

And you thought peanut butter sandwiches just needed a knife and a jar?

Peanut Butter Sandwiches

(Twelve sandwiches)
4 T-peanut butter
I t-butter
1/8 t-salt
1 T-salad dressing
12 slices of bread
12 uniform pieces of lettuce

Cream the peanut butter, add the butter. Cream again, add the salt and salad dressing, mixing well. Cut the bread evenly. Butter one side of the bread very thinly with the peanut butter mixture. Place the lettuce leaf on one slice and place another slice upon it, buttered side down. Press firmly and neatly together. Cut in two crosswise. Arrange attractively in a wicker basket.

We don't get to find out what Uncle John did have for breakfast, but there are other breakfast chapters coming up.

What can we learn from this chapter? I like the way Bettina makes the relatives feel like they are really welcome, and that she's prepared for them hoping they would stay. And that (allergies aside), there's nothing wrong with serving peanut butter, if you do it graciously.

A teaser for you from the next chapter: "Don't laugh, Ruth; a sink is a very important piece of furniture!"