Borza Tibor (szerk.): A Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum évkönyve 1970 (Budapest, Magyar Kereskedelmi és Vendéglátóipari Múzeum, 1970)

Rózsa M. Lajos: Cukrászati termelőeszközök, termékek és értékesítés a XVIII. századi Pesten

M. L. ROZSA MEANS OF PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTS OF PATISSERIE, AND MARKETING IN PEST IN THE 18TH CENTURY The products of patisserie are generally annihilated shortly after their preparation. The means of production used to their preparation or those which became unsuitable for production owing to being used up are generally destroyed when they are exchanged by new ones of the same quality which can be used for more aconomical production instead of the technologically outdated ones. Thus from the point of view of the history of the confectioner's activity the written relics suitable for becoming acquainted which can be used for more economical production instead of the technorecipes supply data to the mode of preparing products and their collections do moreover the same to becoming acquainted with the possible assortment. Sources making possible for us to become acquainted with the actually used means of production and the examination of the actual consumption are rare and unknown. In 1790 a confectioner from Milan named Anthony Regalgati worked in Pest. One part of the inventory, made in the bankruptcy proceedings taken against him in the court of the city of Pest, contains the enumeration of the movable property found in the workshop and shop. This inventory is of the oldest patisserie in Pest and as such it is an important source concerning the actual consumption. The products of the inventory are completed by the book extracts, attached to the bankruptcy documents, which fix the sale of confectionery products. In the part of the essay dealing with the inventory in High German dialect, often applying words used in the Viennese dialect, the fittings of the workshop and shop as well as the products are mentioned in the original text in brackets. Thus the German-speaking reader can become acquainted with them by the essay even without their being enumerated in the extract. The essay points out how confectioners ran their shop in Pest at the end of the 18th century, how they produced for stock, worked to order and produced for buyers. The buyers were on the one hand grocers and colonial merchants, on the other hand innkeepers and café owners. The confectionery products became the objects of supply of the catering trade at the end of the 18th century Pest for the final consumer by being sold within the catering trade appearing as a buyer and by producing for this purpose respectively. The confectioner did not provide in his own shop the furnishing (vessel, use of cutlery, service) necessary to the local consumption of his products. 165