![]() ![]() The confection’s price often reflected this, which meant sugarplums were a luxury item worthy of visions, to be enjoyed on a special occasion. ![]() Before the industrial revolution and the advent of automation, it could take a candy maker several days to complete a single batch of comfits. Such confections are produced in an incredibly labor- and time-intensive process called “panning,” where layer after layer of sugar is poured over a nut or a seed and allowed to harden. (Also often interchangeable: the spellings of the word, and whether “sugarplum” is one word or two.) But, back in the day, the word sugarplum was also often used interchangeably with the term comfit, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “a sweet consisting of a nut, seed, or other center coated in sugar.” Think Jordan almonds or candied caraway seeds – a single center, surrounded by a hard and crunchy candy coating. ![]()
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