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Definition of Sweetmeats
1. sweetmeat [n] - See also: sweetmeat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweetmeats
Literary usage of Sweetmeats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"Add three quarts of cream, whipped very light; mix it well, and put it in forms.
Flavor to taste, and eat it with cream and sweetmeats. 756. ..."
2. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"sweetmeats. Webe. limits the meaning too much in giving it only to fruits preserved
with sugar. It evidently includes all the dry productions of the ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"LORD AVEBURY was prepared to accept " sweetmeats " instead of ' sweets," but the
other words seemed unnecessary. Cooked fish, meat, and eggs would come ..."
4. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1903)
"A great many common sweetmeats have a most definite composition, ... Composition of
sweetmeats Generally. TOFFY.—Toffy is made by melting sugar with butter. ..."
5. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"SWEET DISHES AND sweetmeats. Buttered Rice. WASH and pick some rice, drain, and
put it with some new milk, enough just to swell it, over the fire; ..."
6. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"Add three quarts of cream, whipped very light; mix it well, and put it in forms.
Flavor to taste, and eat it with cream and sweetmeats. 756. ..."
7. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1858)
"sweetmeats. Webe. limits the meaning too much in giving it only to fruits preserved
with sugar. It evidently includes all the dry productions of the ..."
8. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1908)
"LORD AVEBURY was prepared to accept " sweetmeats " instead of ' sweets," but the
other words seemed unnecessary. Cooked fish, meat, and eggs would come ..."
9. Foods: Their Composition and Analysis by Alexander Wynter Blyth, Meredith Wynter Blyth (1903)
"A great many common sweetmeats have a most definite composition, ... Composition of
sweetmeats Generally. TOFFY.—Toffy is made by melting sugar with butter. ..."
10. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"SWEET DISHES AND sweetmeats. Buttered Rice. WASH and pick some rice, drain, and
put it with some new milk, enough just to swell it, over the fire; ..."
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