Arte de reposteria : en que se contiene todo genero de hacer dulces secos, y en lìquido, vizcochos, turrones, y natas: bebidas heladas de todos generos, rosolis, mistelas, &c. : con una breve instruccion para conocer las frutas, y servirlas crudas : y diez mesas, con su explicacion
A Spanish confectionery and pastry manual by Juan de la Mata, printed in Madrid in 1747, covering sweets, sherbets and table layouts for dinners. Its plates are engraved designs of banquet tables seen from above, with oval tables of dishes, sugar sculptures, central pavilions and cloth skirts. A designer could take from them the radial symmetry of formal table layouts and the ornate sugar architecture of an 18th-century display.
