Henriette Schønberg Erken

Maren Caroline Henriette Schønberg Erken (6 November 1866 – 22 October 1953) was a popular Norwegian cookbook writer and teacher in home economics.

To obtain better qualifications, she took courses in home economics in Norway and later she learned cookery in Berlin and Edinburgh.

[1] Starting in 1897, she wrote a regular column for the women's magazine Urd[1] which mostly had readers of upper-class or upper middle-class background.

She offered courses for future housewives (Norwegian: husmorskole) and a school for aspiring teachers of home economics.

[6] An abridged version of the large bookbook named Liten kokebok (English: Small cookbook) which was first published in 1931 sold 100,000 copies.

[1] Erken provided recipes for physician Carl Schiøtz's 1939 book about healthy diet Trygg kost for norske hjem which included information about the Oslo breakfast.