ˈpastry-cook
One whose occupation it is to make pastry or articles of food in which pastry is an essential part; now esp. one who makes such articles for public sale.
| 1712 Steele Spect. No. 304 ¶4 He may be allowed to sell them..to his good Customers the Pastry-Cooks. 1855 Kingsley Westw. Ho! viii, As a ragged boy eyes the cakes in a pastrycook's window. |
| attrib. 1802 Med. Jrnl. VIII. 159 They..ought to give place to lac amygdalæ, pastry-cook-whey, or even common water. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 3/3 One of the most successful new notions for the toque is suggested by a chef's cap... The pastrycook crown is the name to which this very seyant toque answers. |
Hence
ˈpastryˌcookery.
| 1860 Sala in Cornh. Mag. I. 275 This Arabian Nights' pastrycookery. |