Christine Charlotte Riedl

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Christine Charlotte Riedl (born May 31, 1801 in Oßweil near Ludwigsburg, † September 9, 1873 in Lindau (Lake Constance) ; publishing pseudonym: Aunt Betty ) was a well-known southern German cookbook author and was one of the first authors of cookbooks for children in the 19th century.

Life

Christine Charlotte Riedl was the daughter of the farmer Jakob Philipp Schmid and his wife Sophie Menner. At first she was in service at the Gasthof Zur Goldenen Traube in Augsburg . There she probably worked as a cook .

On October 27, 1831, in Lindau, she married the 51-year-old widower Georg Walter Schlatter, innkeeper Zum Goldenen Lamm in Lindau and later cafetier. The couple had a total of five children, only two of whom survived childhood: Sophie and Franz Ludwig. Georg Walter Schlatter died in 1842.

Two years later, in October 1844, Christine Charlotte Riedl married the Reutin landowner Clemens Wolfgang Riedl, with whom she initially continued to run the inn. In Lindau, the Lindau Cookbook was published in seven deliveries from 1851 to 1852 , with which she became very well known.

From 1853 to around 1865, Christine Charlotte Riedl and her husband are said to have run the restaurant at the Lindau train station, which opened in 1853. During this time, Die kleine Köchin , a cookbook for children , was published in 1854 . In the same year Julie Bimbach's cookbook for the dolls kitchen was published by the Nuremberg publisher Christian Adolf Braun, then by Jean Braun, known as the Raw'sche Verlag bookstore . It is unclear which of the two books can claim to have been the first doll's cookbook in Germany. Henriette Davidis' cookbook for dolls came out two years later: 1856.

Works

Title page of the 1896 edition of the Dolls Cookbook

Lindau cookbook

The Lindau cookbook , published by Stettner in Lindau from 1851–52, contained 1,600 recipes for home-style and fine cuisine. The author traded as "Christine Charlotte Riedel, hostess, formerly a cook in some of the first hotels and baths". The cookbook was widespread in southern Germany and had fifteen editions by 1925. After 1979 it was reprinted several times.

The little cook

Typical doll stove with alcohol burners

Almost more famous than the “big” cookbook is the doll's cookbook. It first appeared as The Little Cook at Stoffel & Wachter in Lindau, later with the subtitle Kochbüchlein zu kleine Kochöfen . For the fourth edition, in 1892, now published by Raw in Nuremberg, in which the doll's cookbook by Julie Bimbach also appeared, it was renamed the Nuremberg Puppet Cookbook. Edited by Aunt Betty . The success of the book grew considerably under this name: it was published in 16 editions by 1914. The fact that the Nuremberg publisher Raw published two dolls' cookbooks, and the first two books of this genre, is probably related to the toy industry based in Nuremberg . Since the middle of the 19th century, doll stoves, small functional cookers for children, have also been produced there, for which the doll cookbooks were a welcome addition.

Christine Charlotte Riedel about the doll's cookbook: “ Since it has become more and more common for some years now for parents to give their girls equipped kitchens and stoves for Christmas, the little cookbook was still missing. I have now written this little cookbook with the intention and for the purpose that the girls will be able to make use of their kitchens and stoves according to its instructions ”.

The recipes in the doll's cookbook included Wirsich vegetables, roasted liver, meat pillows, pan cakes with apples, Gogelhöpflein and aniseed pretzels .

expenditure

  • Lindau cookbook . Johann Thomas Stettner, Lindau 1852. (15 editions until 1925, several reprints 1948, 1979, 1980, 1995)
  • The little cook . Stoffel & Wachter, Lindau 1854. (16 editions up to 1914, from the 4th edition on Raw, Nuremberg, reprint Lindau 1946)

literature

  • Eckehard and Walter Methler: From Henriette Davidis to Erna Horn. Evangelical church community Volmarstein-Oberwengern, Wetter / Ruhr 2001, ISBN 3-9810130-4-2 ( publications of the Henriette Davidis Museum. Volume 9) Exhaustive bibliography.

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ City archives Lindau, Mr. City archivist Heiner Stauder
  2. ↑ cit. after Methler / Methler, p. 597
personal data
SURNAME Riedl, Christine Charlotte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cookbook author and cook
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Oßweil
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1873
Place of death Lindau (Lake Constance)