I found some old books in my grandfather’s collection. This one in particular stuck out, because it’s the only one which was entirely in German.
It’s also extremely old, as you can tell from the binding. I barely want to open the book because I don’t want to damage it.
But it seems to be an entire catalog of German cooking recipes. There are almost 200+ soup recipes in the book as well.
Is this a book in print out in Germany?
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praktisches kochbuch für die deutschen in amerika
There are some for sale, just google the above name, you will find exactly the same one.
Looks like this version:
Henriette Davidis
Brumder’s Verlag, 1897, Hardcover/gebunden
https://books.google.de/books/about/Praktisches_Kochbuch_F%C3%BCr_Die_Deutschen.html?id=GibLsgEACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
It is called *Praktisches Kochbuch für die Deutschen in America,* “practical cooking book for Germans in America”. So I’d assume it is a US production.
That is not in print anymore for a long time. I made a quick google research in Germany and found out that that it is kind of open commons because copyrights ran out a long time ago. BTW a copy in good condition is offered for 350€
An interesting detail, st least in my eyes, is that this is based on the 36th Edition of Henriette Davidis’ German Cookbook, but the second American Edition done by Hedwig Voß.
So it seems this was genuinely a German cookbook for a while before being brought to the states by settlers and then edited (but obviously not translated) to include typical American ingredients and dishes.
The author Henriette Davidis was born and died in Germany, theres an article about her in the german wikipedia with a long paragraph about that book – and a museum just 4 km from here.
I **knew** that name sounded familiar.
[Wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Davidis)
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Practical Cooking Book
for the
Germans in America.
Reliable and self-tested instructions
for praparing the most various dishes and beverages, for
baking, preserving, etc.
According to the 36th edition of the German cooking book by
Henriette Davidis
edited by
Hedwig Voß in Chicago.
Second American Edition,
recently revised.
Enriched and improved by inclusion of receipes for the dishes customary in America,
of bread, fine pastries, preserves, beverages, and by
transposing of German into American metric and weight,
as well by addition of a diet for the sick, furthermore by
coffee and tea parties, and an instruction
to folding napkins.
Opulently illustrated.
Milwaukee, Wis[consin].
Geo[rg]. Brumder’s Publishing House.