Leaving alone the question of why a woman of the royal house was cooking in the first place.
And more seriously, it seems to me that the book Éowyn would never try to attract a man, especially a man like Aragorn, by trying to look like wife material. As Faramir astutely notes later, she had a hero-worship crush on Aragorn, and tried to appeal to him more in a soldierly way. If anything, she ought to be cleaning his sword.
I emphatically disagree. He personal problem was that being a woman forced her to play a nurturing role toward her uncle when she really wanted to whack things with a sword. Which she was superbly qualified to do, as it turned out.ax wrote:I rather liked the stew scene with Éowyn. Her *personal* tragedy (as opposed to the larger cultural issue, which JRRT sidesteps) was that there was a warm, caring person under the brittle exterior she put up in self-defense against her surroundings as Théoden declined and Wormtongue wheedled.
It took Faramir to convince her that there are other ways to be a worthy person.