Sentence examples for comfit from inspiring English sources

A tasting dinner ($60 a person) with wines was memorable for a strudel stuffed with duck comfit and cherries, lovely salsas and presentations as well as multiple desserts.

Book 4 of "Gargantua and Pantagruel," in which the Gastrolaters make culinary offerings to Gaster, the Lord of the Belly, provides a five-page epic menu that includes 100 varieties of salad, 20 sorts of tarts, and comfits in a hundred colors, as well as hedgehogs, porpoises and stuffed monkeys.

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).

Taub then came across the idea for "fruit leather" after finding a reference from the historian Dorothy Hartley to a recipe dating from 1700 for quince comfits – the equivalent of fruit pastilles – which require a mixture as "stiff as candied fruit leather".

I buy liquorice comfits.

In his pockets he carries boxes of comfits and chocolates at which he nibbles all day.

(Kissing-comfits are similar to sweet mints; eringoes refers to candied sea holly, an aphrodisiac and remedy for flatulence).

"Let the sky rain potatoes," he says, "and hail kissing-comfits and snow eringoes".