Kawiarz, kawiarka, panna kawowa
coffee man, coffee lady; from the 1730s, members of kitchen staff working at court coffeehouses. Their duties included roasting coffee beans, preparing and serving coffee infusions, chocolate, and tea, sometimes managing sugar, cream, and spices. They were also responsible for coffee sets, grinders, coffee-roasting stoves, and valuable beans.
Source: LNNBU, Biblioteka Baworowskich, fond 4, op. 1, ms. 670, Regestr służby… hr. Baworowskiego w Kopczyńcach 1773 et seq.
See more: B. Popiołek, 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. 313.
Women's noble court in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Saxon times. Structure, people, culture, functions
