Baroness Ilona Gyulai Edelsheim, widow of the vice governor István Horthy. “...We had a hot chocolate at the small Ruszwurm confectionery, which looked exactly like in my younger years, with excellent strudels filled with poppy, walnut, sour cherries and cottage cheese.” (Honour and Duty 2., 1945-1998, Európa Publisher, Budapest, 2001)

At that time, the furnishings cost 4000 forints, and the gold-plating of the statues and ornaments alone cost 1000 forints. Later the table decorations were transported from here to the bishop installations, weddings as well as to the balls organised by baron Erdődy.
Richter was such a great master of this trade that orders for his products kept coming from Vienna one after the other. After his death in 1846, his widow and his assistant, Antal Müller, carried on the work. Müller was a brave soldier, who was later given the title “freedom fighter of the confectionery industry”. He was captured at the capitulation at Világos, then he was imprisoned in the infamous New Building.
At the colonel’s office, he got acquainted with lawyer Rudolf Müller Linzer, a former first lieutenant in the freedom fight, and his friendship to him could not have been better expressed than by naming one of his pastries after him. Tradition has it that this is how the Hungarian linzer cookie was born, which has been a speciality of the confectionery ever since.
Later, Müller became a town councillor and Francis Joseph – when first coming to Buda in 1865 – commissioned him to decorate the table for the aduarc dinner. Upon the coronation in 1887, his daughter, Róza Müller, later Mrs. Ruszwurm, handed over to Queen Elisabeth the coronation drum, made of sugar and tragant, and the sugar flower.

Two-century-old, protected figures, still to be seen in the glass cabinet.

Strangely enough, the confectionery was always inherited on the female line: Schwabl’s widow was married to Richter, her niece was married to Müller, and his daughter’s husband was Vilmos Ruszwurm, who was apprentice, then assistant and later gave his name to the shop and became manager from 1884 to 1922.
Upon the reconstructions in 1960, a business book came to light from the years between 1883 and 1890 to show that most of the clients were noblemen, and some of them even visited the shop twice a week. This means that in those times the households of the aristocrats no longer satisfied their needs from their in-house confectioners, as was the case at the turn of the century, but they made purchases from the retailers. Another group of clients was given by ministry officials, teachers, military officers and engineers, and a lower number was given by artisans, farmers and vineyard owners from Buda.