A cookbook for the XMMSAS

This paper will give a short description of a cookbook' for the XMM-Newton data reduction software XMMSAS. This cookbook’ has been developed at the Max-Planck-Institut f"ur extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Garching. The task of this `cookbook’ is to describe the necessary XMMSAS tasks and show examples to make it easy for new users of the XMMSAS to understand the steps which have to perform to reduce their XMM X-ray data.