Window display #9 Pastry

This window display collects pastry tools, starting with a whole series of marzipan cookie molds ranging from the oldest, (n.1) made of terracotta in the eighteenth century, while at n.2 there is a series of nineteenth-century molds in stone and plaster for marzipan and biscuits. At n. 3 there is the first edition of the “Practical guide for pastry and confectioning apprentices” by Giuseppe Ciocca, the author whose complete work is on the second floor. Below, at n. 4, we can find a whole series of wafers for hosts, biscuits and puff pastry ranging from the end of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Below we can see a small candy machine from the late nineteenth century, fully functional, with interchangeable rollers; obviously, by changing the roller, the shape of the candy also changes. Particularly interesting is the waffle maker attributable to the early eighteenth century, at no. 5. At n. 6 we find a nineteenth-century pastry chef’s syringe with interchangeable tip, at the time the latest in technique for professionals!

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