Confectioners’ Paste

This is also commonly known as pâté d’office. As the original recipe we are using stated: “From this paste may be made cottages, temples, fountains, pyramids, castles, bridges, hermits’ cells, vases, or any other required forms, which are to be made in different pieces and put together afterwards or formed in moulds, and either baked or dried out in the stove.”¹⁰ The forms referred to were called pièces mo