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What (who) is sweetmeats - definition

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Confectionary; Confection; Confectioner; Sweetshop; Sweetmeats; Sweet meat; Sweet meats; Winter Mixture; Sugar confectionary; Sweeties; Confections; Confectioneries; Confectionaries; Sweetmeat; Confectionary industry; Confectionaire; Sugar confectionery; Flour confections; Chocolate confections; Confectionery industry; Flour confection

sweetmeats

n. pl.

Preserves, preserved fruits, sweet stuff.

sweetmeat

n.

Confection, comfit, junket, sugarplum.

Sweetmeat

·noun The paint used in making patent leather.

II. Sweetmeat ·noun A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the American coast.

III. Sweetmeat ·noun Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, ·etc.;

- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection.

Wikipedia

Confectionery

Confectionery is the art of making confections, which are food items that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates. Exact definitions are difficult. In general, however, confectionery is divided into two broad and somewhat overlapping categories: bakers' confections and sugar confections. The occupation of confectioner encompasses the categories of cooking performed by both the French patissier (pastry chef) and the confiseur (sugar worker).

Bakers' confectionery, also called flour confections, includes principally sweet pastries, cakes, and similar baked goods. Baker's confectionery excludes everyday breads, and thus is a subset of products produced by a baker.

Sugar confectionery includes candies (also called sweets, short for sweetmeats, in many English-speaking countries), candied nuts, chocolates, chewing gum, bubble gum, pastillage, and other confections that are made primarily of sugar. In some cases, chocolate confections (confections made of chocolate) are treated as a separate category, as are sugar-free versions of sugar confections. The words candy (Canada & US), sweets (UK, Ireland, and others), and lollies (Australia and New Zealand) are common words for some of the most popular varieties of sugar confectionery.

The confectionery industry also includes specialized training schools and extensive historical records. Traditional confectionery goes back to ancient times and continued to be eaten through the Middle Ages and into the modern era.

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Examples of use of sweetmeats

1. Handmade chocolates from Lebanon are another new offering, as chocolates begin to replace Indian sweetmeats as customary wedding favors.

2. Aprons on and hands scrubbed, we then start gently with the practical session, the preparation of the sweetmeats, kidneys and blood sausages to whet the appetite and test our ability to weather the furnace–like fury of the grill.

3. Cynics tend to believe that Washington is overrun with sleazy bagmen prowling the halls of Congress and slithering down White House corridors, proffering baubles, trinkets, sweetmeats and other enticements to plucky public servants, drawing them away from the straight and narrow to do the bidding of rapacious elites.

4. While meeting the 10 selected trainees shortly before they left for Beirut, Mohammed Jameel, president of the Abdul Latif Jameel Community Services Programs, encouraged the trainees «to be a model for others.» The six–month course will focus on developing English–speaking and behavioral skills in addition to learning the art of cooking and preparing sweetmeats in keeping with latest international standards.

5. But deliberate inversion of natural orders is the time–honoured and easiest way of advertising power and status (which is why now, in a time of ease and plenty, it is fashionable for members of the celebocracy to weigh less than an acorn). The aristocrats soon seized upon the notion of populating the household with papillons and scattering sweetmeats upon them to demonstrate their unlimited wealth and general fabulosity. (This too has its modern equivalent in today‘s celebrities who carry pedigree pooches around in designer bags to announce to the world that you‘re nobody unless you can afford to let your dog shit in Chanel.) Once the industrial revolution gave us the leisured classes, they rushed to copy their betters.