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Confectioners' raw materials : their sources, modes of preparation, chemical composition, the chief impurities and adulterations, their more important uses and other points of interest / by James Grant.
Grant, James, 1859-Date: 1921
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Confectioner's shop: interior view, process of smoothing sugar-plums. Etching.
Date: [between 1700 and 1799]Reference: 37430i- Books
Practical pastry : a handbook for pastrybakers, cooks and confectioners / by Fredk. T. Vine ("Compton Dene").
Vine, Fredk. T. (Frederick T.)Date: 1907- Books
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The court and country cook : giving new and plain directions how to order all manner of entertainments, And the best sort of the Most exquisite a-la-mode Ragoo's. Together with new instructions for confectioners : Shewing How to Preserve all sorts of Fruits, as well dry as liquid: Also, How to make divers Sugar-Works, and other sine Pieces of Curiosity; How to set out a Desert, or Banquet of Sweet-Meats to the best advantage; And, How to prepare several sorts of liquors, that are proper for every Season of the Year. A Work more especially necessary for Stewards, Clerks of the Kitchen, Confectioners, Butlers, and other Officers, and also of great use in private Families. Faithfully translated out of French into English by J.K.
Massialot, François, approximately 1660-1733.Date: 1702- Books
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The housekeeper's valuable present: or, lady's closet companion. Being a new and complete art of preparing confects, according to modern practice. Comprized under the following Parts; viz. I. Different Methods and Degrees of boiling and clarifying Sugar. II. Methods of preserving various Fruits in Syrups, &c. III. Methods of making Marmalades, Jams, Pastes, &c. IV. Methods of making Syrups, Custards, Jellies, Blanch-Mange, Conserves, Syllabubs, &c. V. Methods of preserving various Fruits in Brandy. VI. Methods of making a Variety of Biscuits, rich Cakes, &c. &c. Vii. Methods of mixing, freezing, and working Ice Creams. Viii. Methods of preparing Cordials and made Wines. With a Variety of other useful and elegant Articles. By Robert Abbot, Late Apprentice to Messrs. Negri & Gunter, Confectioners, in Berkeley Square.
Abbot, Robert, cook.Date: [1790?]