comfit

And he bought a round red lacquered comfit dish with a cover, and in this he put sesame cakes and larded sweets and he put the box on the table.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

With an irrational rapidity the Sealyham disposed of the first comfit he had been given for more than six months.

From Berry And Co. by Dornford Yates

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

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train

Caraway comfits consist of these fruits encrusted with white sugar; but why the wife of a comfit maker should be given to swearing, as Shakespeare avers, it is not easy to see.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

Now, suppose you boys wait for me here while I step around and leave this little comfit with Mrs. Badger with my mother’s compliments.”

From Jack Winters' Baseball Team Or, The Rivals of the Diamond by Mark Overton