Hildegards Küche

Thrifty post-war German home cooking and old kitchen tricks, with a cookbook

German-speaking older viewers and nostalgic home cooks who want cheap, old-fashioned recipes, and who are pitched a paid PDF cookbook (inferred from titles, descriptions and the about text).

• Realistic avatar · Talking head
• A photorealistic elderly woman with curly grey hair and glasses, in a beige cardigan over a blue floral apron, seated and facing the camera in a rustic kitchen.

A grandmother talks to camera from her kitchen, with a nostalgic story and a price per plate, then 10-25 numbered dishes or tricks, each with a 'secret' and its cost, and a cookbook link.

• Post-war recipes for under 1 euro
• Winter soups and Christmas cookies
• Kitchen tricks not in cookbooks
• Dishes from the village inn

• Omas [N] [X], die [benefit] – jede für unter [price]
• Was wir gegessen haben, als kein Geld da war – [N] weitere Nachkriegsgerichte für unter 1 Euro
• Plätzchen wie 1955 – [N] Weihnachtsrezepte meiner Mutter, als fast nichts im Schrank war
• [N] Gerichte aus dem Dorfgasthof meiner Kindheit, die heute auf keiner Speisekarte mehr stehen

A smiling grandmother holding or pouring a dish, a bowl or a coin purse in a warm rustic kitchen or inn, a bold white-and-yellow German caption, a red arrow on all 5 and a price tag on 2.

• 3 of 5 titles and all 5 descriptions promise low-cost or 'no money' cooking; the top video (2,347 views) is one of the 3
• Born 1944 in Nordhessen and taught by her mother: the about text and all 5 descriptions repeat this backstory
• The cookbook link opens all 5 descriptions and is named again in the opening and close of both transcribed videos
• Output of about 7 uploads a week; 4 of 5 videos have 700-2,350 views within 4 days of the first upload