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Noun
pasteler (plural pastelers)
- (historical) A pastry cook.
1815, Edward Wedlake Brayley, James Norris Brewer, Joseph Nightingale, London and Middlesex: or, An historical, commercial, & descriptive survey of the Metropolis of Great-Britain, page 370:Then in the hall kitchen, two clerks of the kitchen, a clerk comptroller, a surveyor of the dresser, a clerk of the spicery; all which together kept also a continual mess in the hall; also, in his hall kitchen, he had of master cooks two; and of other cooks, labourers, and children of the kitchen, twelve persons : four yeomen of the silver scullery, two yeomen of the pantry, with two other pastelers under the yeomen.
1932, A History of the Worshipful Company of Cooks, London, page 4:He is also described as Roger the Cook, pasteler, and in 1281 (9th Edward I.), was arrested with others " for divers trespasses, homicides, robberies and assaults and for night walkers after curfew in the City, with swords and bucklers.
1996, Harlan Walker, Cooks & other people:But Roger (for which Hogge is a nickname) was not a 'pasteler' or pie-man: since he ran a cook shop, he would have belonged to a separate guild, and may have been one of those cooks of Bread Street referred to in the regulation, although cook shops also clustered in other locations — notably Eastcheap and Thames Street.
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