following her second husband's death wecker lived with her daughter in nuremberg. in the year of her death she finished her main work, the cookbook "ein köstlich new kochbuch" (a delicious new cookbook), dedicated to luise juliana von oranien-nassau. it was the first printed cookbook in german authored by a woman. it was published in 1597 by katharina taurellus and reprinted numerous times until the end of the 17th century. together with philippine welser ("de re coquinaria", 1545) and sabina welserin ("das kochbuch der sabina welserin", 1553), anna wecker counts amongst the few 16th-century women food writers known by name.