comfitures

Gourmandise also comprehends, friandise (passion for light delicacies) for pastry, comfitures, etc.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004

Away, ye gay, seducing vanities of the Palais Royal or the Boulevards; your light is too garish for our sober eyes -- the sugar of your comfitures is too chalky for our discriminating tooth!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

Her elegant dinners and her dainty comfitures were as famous as ever.

The Women of the French Salons Amelia Ruth Gere Mason

Henceforth, laying aside his comfitures and Punch's garb and squeak,

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858

Still, despite these advantages, it seems that flesh difficulties arose; the fogs of the Thames, or, as some say, dangerous speculations, melted the fragile wares; the comfitures suffered a decided discomfiture.

Memoirs of Robert-Houdin Houdin, Robert 1858

Gourmandise also comprehends, friandise (passion for light delicacies) for pastry, comfitures, etc.

The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790

Only let me love none, no, not the fport Fromconntry grafs to comfitures of court,

The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical Anderson, Robert, 1750-1830. cn 1795

"When I find too much pepper in thy soup, Pris, I'll e'en go cool my tongue with Dame Alice's comfitures; and when I fancy one new-wed pair were as content without me, I'll e'en go and inflict myself upon

Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims 1862