Susanna Eger

Susanna Eger, also Egerin, née Born (1640–1713) was a German cook and cookbook writer. She is remembered for her pioneering Leipziger Kochbuch (Leipzig Cookbook), first published in 1706. It was later translated into Swedish as En nödig och nyttig hushålds och kokbok, becoming one of Sweden's earliest cookbooks.

Biography Born in Leipzig in 1640, Eger was the daughter of Carl Günther Born, a chandler. In 1657, she married the merchant Johann Jacob Eger from Lindau with whom she had four children. Following the early death of her husband, she began to earn her livelihood by becoming a cook for Leipzig's affluent burgers. The cookbook is one of the earliest containing precise details of quantities, weights and measures.

Five editions of the Leipziger Kochbuch were published between 1706 and 1745. It was reprinted in 1984 with a new edition in 2005. Susanna Eger died in Leipzig in 1713.