Comfits are confectionery consisting of dried fruits, nuts, seeds or spices coated with sugar candy, often through sugar panning. Almond comfits (also known as "sugared almonds" or "Jordan almonds") in a muslin bag or other decorative container are a traditional gift at baptism and wedding celebrations in many countries of Europe and the Middle East, a custom which has spread to other countries such as Australia and Puerto Rico. Licorice comfits (sometimes sold as "torpedoes") [1] are typically multi-colored, while almond comfits are usually white for weddings and may be brightly colored for other occasions.
A late medieval recipe for comfits[2] is based on anise seeds, and suggests also making comfits with fennel, caraway, coriander, and diced ginger. These aniseed comfits seem to be a precursor of modern aniseed balls.
French almond comfits for a baptism
Red almond comfits, called "Confetti rossi", are used in Italy to celebrate the conferring of a degree.
^"Liquorice Torpedoes". Archived from the original on 2021-05-23. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
^*British Library, Harleian collection, BL MS Harley. 2378. Composite Miscellany of Medical, Culinary and Alchemical Texts and Recipes. late 14th-15th cent.
Comfits are confectionery consisting of dried fruits, nuts, seeds or spices coated with sugar candy, often through sugar panning. Almond comfits (also...
but were instead hardened sugar balls. These hardened sugar balls were comfits, and often surrounded a seed, nut, or spice. The menu for Henry IV of England's...
of the pharmaceutical use of sugar, as they were a miniature version of comfits. The French name has been interpreted to mean they were "without equal"...
Aniseed balls are a comfit type of hard round sweet sold in the UK, Ireland, Malta, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. They are shiny and...
comfits in the United Kingdom, and a liquorice-flavoured sweet called Torpedoes made by Haribo appears to be similar.[citation needed] Mukhwas Comfit...
instead may be nuts, seeds, or spices coated with hard sugar, also called comfits. Food portal List of dried foods List of plum dishes Pomology – Study of...
mukhwas, an after-meal digestive and breath freshener (saunf), or candied as comfit. Fennel seeds are also often used as an ingredient in paan, a breath freshener...
small sweet traditionally thrown during carnivals. Also known as dragée or comfit, Italian confetti are almonds with a hard sugar coating; their name equates...
dis- + ambigu(ous) + -ate in the mid-20th century Discomfit Comfit Not an antonym. Comfit (noun) is a candy comprising a sugar-coated nut or fruit. From...
types of comfits: smooth and ragged. They differed in the density of sugar syrup that coated them, and thus had different textures. Long comfits, slivers...
star shaped sugar candy, the name comes from the Portuguese word confeito (comfit). Pan — bread, introduced by Portugal. (bread is pão in Portuguese.) Japanese...
Muisjes (Dutch: [ˈmœyʃəs] ; lit. '"little mice"') are aniseed comfits and are a traditional Dutch bread topping. While customary on bread, they are traditionally...
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flavor fish and chicken dishes, and its seeds were served as sugar-coated comfits. Surviving medieval recipes frequently call for flavoring with a number...
the consumption of candy during Lent, because "sugared spices", such as comfits, were, in his opinion, digestive aids on par with medicine rather than...
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of spice enclosed in a round or ovoid mass of sugar. The production of comfits was a core skill of the early confectioner, who was known more commonly...
The name "konpeito" comes from the Portuguese word "confeito", meaning "comfit" (a type of confectionery). Meiji Meiji Seika Meiji chocolates flavors include...
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French almond comfits for a baptism
Red almond comfits, called "Confetti rossi", are used in Italy to celebrate the conferring of a degree.
