Kandyter
a confectioner; a person responsible for preparing sweet dishes, cakes, and candies for the lord’s table. Often employed only temporarily for major court festivities, at large courts, however, they usually held a permanent position and had several assistants.
See more: B. Popiołek, The courts of Marianna Lubomirska née Belińska and Joanna von Stein Lubomirska, the wives of the Grand Standard Bearer of the Crown as an example of a women’s court in Old Poland, KHKM 70 (2), 2022 pp. 183-200; eadem, Rytuały codzienności. Świat szlacheckiego dworu w osiemnastowiecznej Rzeczypospolitej, Warszawa 2022, p. ; eadem, Między kuchnią i spiżarnią. Magnackich regestry wydatków kuchennych w osiemnastowiecznej Rzeczypospolitej, Warszawa 2025, p. 314
Women's noble court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Saxon times. Structure, people, culture, functions
