comfits

(a) Inexhaustible pot: tale: given to Brâhman in reward for prayer filled with comfits, is stolen by innkeeper, but he procures another filled with demons and chastises innkeeper.

Tales of the Punjab 1894

If anyone likes coriander and caraway -- I confess that I don't -- he can sugar the seeds to make those little "comfits," the candies of our childhood which our mothers tried to make us think we liked to crunch either separately or sprinkled on our birthday cakes.

Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses M. G. Kains

We passed Confital Bay, whose 'comfits' are galettes of stone, and gave a wide berth to the Isleta and its Sphinx's head.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

It took us ages to pick our way through the crowded streets down to the Strand, and along the way I spoke to strangers, something Rose wishes I would not do, sang a May Day song with Mr. Lake, the cheesemonger, and ate sugared almond comfits until I felt ill.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

It took us ages to pick our way through the crowded streets down to the Strand, and along the way I spoke to strangers, something Rose wishes I would not do, sang a May Day song with Mr. Lake, the cheesemonger, and ate sugared almond comfits until I felt ill.

Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

But it does have an excellent old-fashioned sweet shop (The Chocolate Box, which sells liquorice comfits, Yorkshire mixture and all the rest); a good vintner (D Byrne & Co); an amazing butcher (Cowman's Famous Sausage Shop, which sells dozens of varieties); and a weekly market that sells properly useful things like chops and cabbage (also, a fine food market, for a more, um, artisanal offer).

My food Narnia is just past Preston Rachel Cooke 2010

In the old candy-making manuals I have found recipes to make caraway seed comfits, and I found really appealing the idea of sugar coated caraway seeds to have as candy

Seed-Cake (Novel Food, Fall ‘08 edition) « Baking History 2008

Additionally, the unusual amounts of liquorice and comfits as well as gold and silver leaf argues for sumptuous and ornate culinary creations.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

But, alack, Bailie Craigdallie, wine is drunk, comfits are eaten, and the gift is forgotten when the flavour is past away.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

Do you remember the verjuice I put into the comfits, when old

The Abbot 2008