Anna Christina Warg (23 March 1703 – 5 February 1769), better known as
Cajsa or
Kajsa Warg, was a
SwedishSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
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author, who is today among the most well-known cooks in Swedish history.
Warg was born in
ÖrebroÖrebro [œrə'bruː] is a city, the seat of Örebro Municipality and the capital of Örebro County in Sweden with 98,237 inhabitants in 2005.-History:Örebro received its Royal Charter and city privileges not later than 1404....
to accountant Anders Warg and Karin Livijn. She left home early to be the cook and house keeper of several powerful people in Stockholm, such as count Wolter Reinhold von Stackelberg.
In 1755 she published was to be a very long-lived classic of the kitchen:
Hjelpreda I Hushållningen För Unga Fruentimber ("Assistant in Housekeeping for Young Women") which was published in fourteen Swedish editions of which the last version was printed in 1822.
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Anna Christina Warg (23 March 1703 – 5 February 1769), better known as
Cajsa or
Kajsa Warg, was a
SwedishSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
cookbookA cookbook is a book that contains information on cooking. It typically contains a collection of recipes, and may also include information on ingredient origin, freshness, selection and quality.-History:...
author, who is today among the most well-known cooks in Swedish history.
Warg was born in
ÖrebroÖrebro [œrə'bruː] is a city, the seat of Örebro Municipality and the capital of Örebro County in Sweden with 98,237 inhabitants in 2005.-History:Örebro received its Royal Charter and city privileges not later than 1404....
to accountant Anders Warg and Karin Livijn. She left home early to be the cook and house keeper of several powerful people in Stockholm, such as count Wolter Reinhold von Stackelberg.
In 1755 she published was to be a very long-lived classic of the kitchen:
Hjelpreda I Hushållningen För Unga Fruentimber ("Assistant in Housekeeping for Young Women") which was published in fourteen Swedish editions of which the last version was printed in 1822. It was also translated into German and Finnish. The book contained not only recipes but also such things as coloring of textiles and other things concerning a household. It was to be the leading household guide for generations, until the new equipment for a kitchen outdated it in the 20th century. It also describes the Swedish kitchen before the use of potatoes, which makes it an important historical document.
Tradition has attributed the saying
man tager vad man haver ("use what you have") to Warg, though there are no accounts of her having used this expression.
She died in
Stockholm' is the capital and largest city of Sweden. It is the site of the national Swedish government, the Riksdag , and the official residence of the Swedish Monarch as well as the prime minister. The Monarch resides at Drottningholm Palace outside of Stockholm since 1980 and uses the Royal Palace of...
.