Susanna Eger
Susanna Eger , also known as Egerin (* 1640 ; † 1713 in Leipzig ), was a German cook and author of the Leipzig cookbook .
Life
Susanna Eger was born in 1640 as the daughter of the grocer Carl Günther Born. She remained connected to this state all her life. In 1657 she married the tradesman Johann Jacob Eger, who came from Lindau on Lake Constance and who settled in Leipzig. From this marriage there were four children.
A pronounced sense of representation, especially towards strangers, stood in the way of the otherwise economical family life of Susanna Eger. Your Leipzig baroque kitchen was designed from simple inexpensive dishes to sophisticated and elaborate recipes, which, at the same time, always paid attention to the economy in the kitchen. The early death of her husband forced the single mother to earn a living. She started a business, now cooked for Leipzig town houses and developed into a well-known professional cook.
In 1706 the first edition of the Leipzig cookbook by Susanna Eger was published by Jacob Schuster Verlag, Leipzig, in which she wrote down her knowledge of Saxon cuisine (around 900 recipes). The first printing was done by F. Groschuff in Leipzig, Eger appeared here under the abbreviation "SE". From the 2nd edition from 1712 under the publisher Jacob Schuster, her full name was on the title page. The cookbook, which in the first edition was purely a recipe collection, was also extensively expanded. In a first appendix , 30 nutritional science questions were answered in a generally understandable manner based on the findings of Johann Sigismund Elsholtz . The second appendix consisted of an encyclopedia in which numerous foods and spices were described. The subsequent part of the ever-ready-computing cook with numerous and useful tables for multiplication , Converting dimensions , weights and coins was for for everyday use. B. intended for purchases in the market . In the final kitchen inventory , the equipment was listed that should belong in a well-run town kitchen of the 18th century. Copper engravings ( frontispiece with a kitchen scene, including table arrangements) supplemented the cookbook in later editions. A remarkable innovation and specialty of the cookbook for the time are the numerous quantities in the recipes.
The name of the historical person Susanna Eger was given to the former vocational school center 10 of the city of Leipzig in 2005 by a resolution of the city council of Leipzig. The Susanna Eger School , the Leipzig Hotel Management School, is the second oldest hotel management school in Germany, which has been training business administrators for the hotel and catering trade since 1955.
literature
- Susanna Eger: Leipziger Kochbuch von 1745. ( New printer of the edition Leipzig, Schuster, 1745), with an afterword by Manfred Lemmer , Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3361006023 .
- Festschrift for the naming ceremony and the completion of the construction work for the Susanna Eger School , Susanna Eger School, Vocational School Center of the City of Leipzig (publisher), 1st edition, Leipzig 2005.
- Marko Kuhn: Leipzig mouth art. Leipziger Koch-Buch, Susanna Eger, 1745 , in: 100 x Leipzig. A thousand years of history , Leipzig City History Museum, Michael Imhof Verlag, Peterberg 2015, ISBN 9783731901594 , p. 108f.
Web links
- Leipzig Koch Book (1706) in the German Digital Library
- Biography on 1000 years of Leipzig - 100 portraits of women
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Peter: Cultural history of German cuisine. Beck, Munich 2008 ISBN 3406572243
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eger, Susanna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Born, Susanna (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cook and cookbook author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1640 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1713 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |