Comfiture vs. Confiture

Comfiturenoun

(obsolete) A confection, especially of preserved fruit.

Comfiturenoun

See Comfit, n.

Confiturenoun

a preserve or jelly/jam of candied fruit

Confiturenoun

Composition; preparation, as of a drug, or confection; a sweetmeat.

Confiturenoun

preserved or candied fruit

Confiture

A confiture is any fruit jam, marmalade, paste, sweetmeat, or fruit stewed in thick syrup. Confit, the root of the word, comes from the French word confire which means literally a confit being any type of food that is cooked slowly over a long period of time as a method of preservation.