Gift for young housewives or means of reducing economic expenses

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Title of the 29th edition from 1917

The cookbook Gift for Young Housewives or Means to Reduce Economic Expenses was written by the Baltic German Helene von Molochowetz (née Burmann, Елена Ивановна Молоховец).

Molochowetz first wrote the cookbook in Russian (Russian: Подарок молодым хозяйкам / Podarok molodym chosajkam ). The first edition was published anonymously in 1861 - with the dedication of a former student to her friends and the students of the secondary girls' school. Molochowetz only announced her name in the later editions of her cookbook.

Molochowetz then translated her cookbook into German himself. The German-language edition was first published in 1877 by the Leipziger Verlag Oswald Mutze. The book is a hodgepodge of Russian cooking recipes, but also of recipes from half of Europe, such as Viennese cakes, cooked fish the Jewish way, beef roast in the English way, hamburger soup, red Wallachian bouillon, roast in the Portuguese way, Polish Masurian cake, French soup á la Julienne, Italian vermicelles, German sauerbraten, macedoine (mixed vegetables), Scottish or Dutch herring , Chinese soup and Turkish roast mutton . In addition to the cooking recipes, there is also detailed advice on economic household and servant management as well as catering for companies.

Molochowetz 'cookbook was one of the most successful in Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries and has been reprinted and expanded many times. The 29th edition in 1917 consisted of three volumes. During the Bolshevik era, Molokhovets' cookbook - labeled as bourgeois and decadent - was banned because it corresponded to the demands and economic circumstances of the Russian nobility.

In 1992 Joyce Toomre translated about 1,000 recipes and other content from Russian editions of the cookbook into English and published it under the book title Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets' a Gift to Young Housewives .

Author

Helene von Molochowetz came from an originally Brandenburg-Prussian family. She was born on March 21, 1831 in Arkhangelsk , where her father was a customs officer. She attended the Higher Education Institute for Noble Daughters Smolny Institute ( Russian Смольный институт), and later married the architect Franz Molochovec ( Molochowetz ). The couple moved to Kursk and had ten children. Molochowetz was a devout Protestant ; she probably died in December 1918 and was buried next to her father in the Lutheran cemetery in St. Petersburg .

literature

  • Karl Schlögel: The Soviet Century , Archeology of a Lost World, ISBN 978-3-406-71511-2 , Verlag C.- H. Beck, 3rd edition 2018, p. 275ff: "The pre-revolutionary cookbook of Jelena Molochowjez"

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edmund Mater: German Authors of Russia. P. 571 , accessed November 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ SLUB Dresden: Podarok molodym chozjajkam ili sredstvo k umenʹšeniju raschodov v domasnem chozjajstvě. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b Elena Molokhovets: Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets' a Gift to Young Housewives . Indiana University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-253-21210-3 ( google.de [accessed November 12, 2017]).
  4. ↑ SLUB Dresden: Gift for young housewives or means to reduce business expenses. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Dominique Sundt: Master Thesis_Comparative Discourse in Worker Culture: Analysis of Early Soviet and German-Language Cookbooks.pdf . ( academia.edu [PDF; accessed on November 12, 2017]).
  6. ↑ a b MDZ: A cookbook conquers Russia | Moscow German newspaper. Retrieved November 12, 2017 (German).
  7. ↑ Подарок молодым хозяйкам, или Средство к уменьшению расходов в домашнем хозяйстве: Молоховец Елена Ивановна - Алфавитный каталог - Электронная библиотека Руниверс. Retrieved November 12, 2017 .