Henriette Davidis
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Cookbook
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author in Germany
Germany
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, and the German cuisine culture is decisively marked by her contributions. Additionally, in her work Die Hausfrau she also discussed other areas of household management, from bookkeeping to animal husbandry
Animal husbandry
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. Thus she is considered the German equivalent to Mrs Beeton
Mrs Beeton
Isabella Mary Beeton , universally known as Mrs Beeton, was the English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and is one of the most famous cookery writers.-Background:...
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Davidis was born in Westfalen, Wengern on the Ruhr river, today a part of the city of Wetter (Ruhr)
Wetter (Ruhr)
Wetter is a town in western Germany and belongs to the area of Ruhr area and the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Wetter belongs to the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. The river Ruhr flows through the urban area and separates the district of Altwetter from the districts of Esborn,...
, as the tenth of thirteen children to the minister Ernst Heinrich Davidis and his Dutch wife Katharina Litthauer.
The first edition of her classic cookbook Praktisches Kochbuch für die gewöhnliche und feinere Küche was published in 1844 and there were at least seventy-six editions published by 1963.
For a nineteenth-century woman, she had an unusual life story. Not all of her activities can be traced, and her 1874 written autobiography was unpublished and is now lost.
Today there is a Henriette-David Museum in Wetter-Wengern. The German Cookbook Museum in Dortmund
Dortmund
Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....
dedicates much of their exhibits to the work of Henriette Davidis, who lived in Dortmund from 1856 to 1876.
Works
- Praktisches Kochbuch für die gewöhnliche und feinere Küche, 1845
- Beruf der Jungfrau, 1857
- Puppenköchin Anna, 1857
- Puppenmutter Anna, 1858
- Praktisches Kochbuch für die Deutschen in Amerika, 1879, entered into Office of the Librarian of Congress by Geo.(Georg) BrumderGeorge BrumderGeorge Brumder was a German-American newspaper publisher and businessman born in Breuschwickersheim, Alsace-Lorraine, France. He was the fifteenth of sixteen children born to Georg and Christina Brumder. In 1857, at the age of 18, Brumder immigrated to Wisconsin with his older sister, Anna Maria,...