Sabina Welser, otherwise unknown, was the author of a German cookbook, ''Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin'', which she dated 1553 in her brief epigraph. The

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were members of the mercantile patriciate of

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, international mercantile bankers and venture capitalists on a par with the

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and the

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. The manuscript was edited by Hugo Stopp and published as ''Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin.'' (Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag) 1980.Online transcript
by Thomas Gloning, accessed November 19, 2014 It is one of a very few primary sources for the history of

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Sabina Welserin's cookbook, translated into English by Valoise Armstrong, 1998
Welserin, Sabina, ''Das Kochbuch'' Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown 16th-century German writers 16th-century German women writers German food writers {{food-bio-stub