Katharina Prato

The recipes she recorded during her husband's illness were the beginning of a larger collection which she published in 1858 as Die süddeutsche Küche (South-German Cooking).

[2] In 1861, she married Johann von Scheiger, a former friend of her first husband, who was postal director of the provinces of Styria and Carinthia.

[3] Accompanying him on his numerous business trips, she collected recipes from the restaurants and households they visited, including them in later editions of her cookbook.

[2] In addition to expanded editions of her cookbook, in 1873 Prato published Austria's first comprehensive housekeeping guide, Die Haushaltungskunde.

[4] Prato founded the Verein Volksküche in Graz, a kind of soup kitchen association, and supported women's retirement accommodation, girls schools and kindergartens.