The true culinary art, or the latest, tested and complete Pest cookbook

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The true art of cooking, or latest, tested and complete Pest cookbook is the German Cookbook Josefine (also Josephine) Saint - Hilaire (? -1859), which she wrote after own extensive knowledge and first time in 1820 by the bookseller Joseph Eggenberger was published . Her work was so successful that it had a total of 31 editions by 1895.

At the beginning, her cookbooks appeared anonymously, only with their initials ISH. In the preface to the eighth edition of the Pest cookbook , however, the author said: “In order to avoid any violation, I have considered it necessary to mine for this new edition accompanied by measures because it is namely also appeared under a similar title, another cookbook a few years ago in Pest. " . The occasion was probably the published anonymously in 1836 cookbook by three women Pesther General proved Pesther Cookbook , published by Verlag Gustav Heckenast .

The Pest cookbook published at the time by the bookseller Georg Kilian in Hungarian is an almost verbatim copy of the Pest cookbook by Josefine von Saint-Hilaire , it was also published anonymously. The Hungarian version of the Pest cookbook was still called “ Legújabb, legbővebb és leghasznosabb pesti szakácskönyv ” in 1834 , then from 1843 “A valódi szakácsság, vagy: legujabb alapos és teljes pesti szakácskönyv” . The bookseller Thomas von Trattner , who printed the eighth edition of Hilaire's cookbook, played the greatest role in the unauthorized reprints of foreign literary works at that time.

The preface to her cookbooks shows that Josefine von Saint-Hilaire revised and expanded the new editions of her cookbook herself, and that “only a little has been used from other written and printed cookbooks”. Later that was Pester cookbook of Josephine of Saint-Hilaire also in Hungarian (Hungarian A valódi szakácsság vagy legújabban átvizsgált és tökéletesített Képes pesti SZAKÁCSKÖNYV ) from other book printers ( Emil Wiesner and Robert Lampel published) and found to the 20th century yet huge interest.

biography

The few information about the personal life of Josephine of Saint - Hilaire provides the " directory of concerning published in Hungary and Hungarians abroad German prints", which in 1886 in "German Hungarian Bibliography 1801-1860" was published:

“ Saint - Hilaire , Josefine , Rittmeisterswittwe - The true art of cooking, or the latest, checked and complete Pest cookbook. This cookbook by a Pesterin, the widow of an imperial and royal officer, which has been famous for 26 editions in 60 years , had the second edition in 1823, the third in 1826, the fourth in 1829, the fifth in 1832, and the sixth in 1835. Not until the seventh edition was a contract written in 1839, which secured the author 258 florins for each new edition , which she received until her death in 1859. Only from the 7th edition did she call herself open. "

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Josephine von Saint-Hilaire: The true culinary art or the latest checked and complete Pest cookbook. Eggenberger, 1820, accessed October 18, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Bibliographia hungariae. 1891, p. 267 , accessed October 18, 2017 (Hungarian).
  3. ↑ 53rd Stuttgart Antiquarian Book Fair 2014 (register). Antiquariat Löcker Wien, p. 73 , accessed on October 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Josephine von Saint Hilaire: The true culinary art, or the latest and most complete Pesther cookbook. 1844, Retrieved October 21, 2017 .
  5. ↑ General checked Pesther cookbook… ed. of three Pesther women. Verlag Gustav Heckenast, 1836, accessed on October 21, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Generally checked Pesther cookbook. Szakácskönyv / Bibliográfia - wikibooks, accessed on October 21, 2017 (Hungarian).
  7. ^ Trade and trade directory of the Austrian imperial state. Retrieved October 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ A valodi Szakacssag vagy legujabb alapos es teljes pesti szakacskönyv. In: 6th edition. Kilian György, accessed October 18, 2017 (Hungarian).
  9. ↑ Politikai Ujdonsagok (Political News Gazette). In: Pakh Albert. 1856, Retrieved October 21, 2017 (Hungarian).
  10. ↑ Szakácskönyv / Bibliográfia at wikibooks. Retrieved October 21, 2017 (Hungarian).
  11. ^ Johann Thomas von Trattner in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
  12. ↑ Stephan Füssel: Studies on the history of the publishing house and the typology of publishers in Goethe's time. Walter de Gruyter, accessed October 18, 2017 .
  13. ^ Norbert Bachleitner, Franz M. Eybl, Ernst Fischer: History of the book trade in Austria. Harrassowitz Verlag, 2000, pp. 92,140,141 , accessed on October 19, 2017 .
  14. ^ Josephine von Saint-Hilaire: The true culinary art, or: the latest, checked and complete Pesther cookbook. In: second revised and improved edition. Joseph Eggenberger, accessed October 18, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Hungary's German Bibliography 1801–1860. Kings Univ.-Buchdruckerei, 1886, p. 189 , accessed on October 18, 2017 .