confiture

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You could have some of that good bread with Plugra butter and housemade confiture or a Jerusalem bagel to eat with labneh garnished with olive oil and za’atar.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2015

To order, e-mail I just ordered this month’s Tell Tale Society package, and am alternating between the quince-caramelized honey cake, the fresh walnut and yuzu torrone and the spruce confiture de lait.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2010

There is a convent near Brisbane, Australia, where the nuns serve visitors a specialty of their religious house: confiture of prickly pear.

From Time Magazine Archive

The last-mentioned, but not the least-important preparation of fruit, is the compôte, a confiture made at the moment of need, and with much less sugar than would be ordinarily put to preserves.

From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

"May I have this confiture?" asked a battle-stained French orderly, coming up to him.

From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Palmer, Frederick