Herbstmilch (English: Autumn Milk) is the German autobiography of Anna Wimschneider (1919–1993), a peasant woman from Lower Bavaria.
The title derives from the Bavarian word for a type of fermented milk, from which soup is made.
Wimschneider tells of the hard conditions in which she grew up, on a farm.
She later married Albert Wimschneider, but he was then conscripted and went off to war, leaving Anna to look after their farm, together with her mother-in-law.
The book was made into a film, titled Autumn Milk, in 1988 by Joseph Vilsmaier.