comfit

I had always, from earliest childhood, been outrageously fond of this delicate comfit.

Dora took courage beneath the caressing hand: "I like to be a comfit to mother best," she vouchsafed, brightly daring.

Of these early ordinaries the earliest known to be licensed goes as far back as 1634, when Samuel Cole, comfit-maker, kept it.

Comfit boxes—Boxes divided into compartments in which were rare spices, handed round with dessert.