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(obsolete, historical) A kitchen or building in which wafers and other pastries are prepared; the department of the royal household responsible for the preparation of wafers..
1474, Ordinances for the Government of Prince Edward, Son of King Edward IV in A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household Made in Divers Reigns, London: Society of Antiquaries, 1790, “Office of Greate Spycerye,” p. 80, One secundary clerke in this office of the greate spycery, sufficiaunt to resceive and trulye to keepe the Kinge’s stuffe of this office; and to wryte the dayly bookes of the delyveraunces thereof, and of all the other three offices, as it shall require; and he to awnswere to everye parcell of them into the counting-house, as for suger to the wafery, or to the sellare or kychyn, with all other manner of spices nedefull to the confectionarye and sawcerye […]
1603, Richard Niccols, A Funeral Oration, upon the Death of the Late Deceased Princesse of Famous Memorye, Elizabeth, London: E. White, “Queen Elizabeths Funerall,” Then folowed Groomes, being: […] Kitchin. Lawndrie. Ewerie. Confectionary. Waferie. […]
Item the xi daye paied to Robert a lee yoman of the wafery for carying of the kinge nette for one hole yere ended xvi daye of Aprill laste […]
It was not till comparatively recent times that the wafery, a special department of the royal kitchen, where the confectionery and pastry were prepared, was discontinued.
1900, Annie French Hector (as “Mrs. Alexander”), The Step-Mother, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Chapter 4, p. 65, […] enter Mrs. Raikes […] leading by the hand a little boy in a sailor suit, cap in hand, a thin, wafery-looking boy, tall for seven years old, but white and wan, with big, dark-grey eyes, restless and shifty, alarmed like a wild thing afraid of the hunters.
It is, however, much more dangerous to descend than to ascend a rapid; for it is then almost impossible to stop a canoe, when under full headway, and if you happen to strike a rock, you will find your wafery canoe no better than a sieve.
Barbara had understood from her fifth year that it was not actually the same wafery substance, here on the table at Golders Green, that had been baked by the Israelites on the first Passover night, and yet, in a mysterious sense, it was […]
I had one further mission, to investigate the famous Moroccan pastilla—a parcel of wafery pastry filled with an exotic concoction of meat (classically pigeon), almonds, spices, sugar and eggs.
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Wafery means (obsolete, historical) A kitchen or building in which wafers and other pastries are prepared; the department of the royal household responsible for the preparation of wafers..
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1474, Ordinances for the Government of Prince Edward, Son of King Edward IV in A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household Made in Divers Reigns, London: Society of Antiquaries, 1790, “Office of Greate Spycerye,” p. 80, One secundary clerke in this office of the greate spycery, sufficiaunt to resceive and trulye to keepe the Kinge’s stuffe of this office; and to wryte the dayly bookes of the delyveraunces thereof, and of all the other three offices, as it shall require; and he to awnswere to everye parcell of them into the counting-house, as for suger to the wafery, or to the sellare or kychyn, with all other manner of spices nedefull to the confectionarye and sawcerye […]
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