Best Recipes: German Cooking And Baking

by August Oetker

This cookbook has hundreds of recipes from Germany. All the favorites of the country are listed. Fabulous cookbook.

Genres: Cookbooks

248 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2006

About the author

Also known as: August (Dr. Oetker) Oetker or even Dr. Oetker.

Dr. August Oetker, German botanist, entrepreneur and founder of the company Oetker; he earned his doctorate in botanics in 1888.

Oetker invented baking powder although, it was invented before. But Oetker was the first to market it to home users.

In 1891, he bought the Aschoffsche pharmacy in Bielefeld and developed a baking agent, which was designed to ensure the success of the baking process.

Due to successful marketing, Oetker's products sold quite well and soon the old pharmacy had turned into a successful company. In 1900, Oetker built his first manufacturing plant and by 1906 had sold 50 million packages of Backin.

Prior to Oetker, Justus von Liebig and his American student, Eben Horsford, had already discovered baking powder. However, Oetker targeted mainly private households with his products whereas Horsford targeted bakeries.