While licorice comfits ( also known as "'torpedoes "'because of their shape ) are multi-coloured, almond comfits are usually white for weddings but may be brightly coloured for other occasions.
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Being the only international brand in a market dominated by small-scale manufacturers and low-key brands like Comfit ( manufactured by Goa-based Christen Hoden ), J & J had grown a bit complacent.
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An industrial area has grown up at Gorai union including Nasir Glass & Tubes, Naheed Cotton Mill, Newtex Dyeing & Printing, Uttara Spinning, Youth Spinning Mill, Comfit composit Mill, and Masafi bread and biscuit factory.
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"' Comfits "'are confectionery consisting of dried fruits, baptism and wedding celebrations in many countries of Europe and the Middle East, a custom which has spread to other countries such as Australia and Puerto Rico.
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These would include wafers, comfits of sugar-spun anise or other spices, jellies and marmalades ( a firmer variety than we are used to, these would be more similar to our gelatin jigglers ), candied fruits, spiced nuts and other such niceties.
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In 1844, Eleanor Parkinson, of a well-known Philadelphia family of professional confectioners, first published her book " The Complete Confectioner ", in which she described how to make nonpareils following her comfit-making procedure, which involved multiple hot pots and hot syrup.
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At the Haymarket Wilson was on 16 June 1781 the original Comfit in O'Keeffe's Dead Alive, and played Filch in the Beggar's Opera, with the male parts played by women and vice versa; she played also Nysa in Midas ( 15 August ), and Flippanta in the Confederacy .
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In favour of the traditional practice, observed both in East and West, Thomas Aquinas argued that " they afford greater pleasure as food [ than fish ], and greater nourishment to the human body, so that from their consumption there results a greater surplus available for seminal matter, which when abundant becomes a great incentive to lust . " Aquinas also authorized the consumption of candy during Lent, because " sugared spices " ( such as comfits ) were, in his opinion, digestive aids on par with medicine rather than food.
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Teas from any other place, or in any other ships or vessel, bohea, per pound, fifteen cents; souchong and other black teas, per pound, twenty-seven cents; hyson, per pound, fifty cents; other green teas, per pound, thirty cents; coffee, per pound, four cents; cocoa, per pound, one cent; loaf sugar, per pound, five cents; brown sugar, per pound, one and a half cent; other sugar, per pound, two and a half cents; candles of tallow, per pound, two cents; candles of wax or spermaceti, per pound, six cents; cheese, per pound, four cents; soap, per pound, two cents; pepper per pound, six cents; pimento, per pound, four cents; manufactured tobacco, per pound, six cents; snuff, per pound, ten cents; indigo, per pound, twenty-five cents; cotton, per pound, three cents; nails and spikes, per pound, one cent; bar and other lead, per pound, one cent; steel unwrought, per one hundred and twelve pounds, seventy-five cents; hemp, per one hundred and twelve pounds, fifty-four cents; cables, per one hundred and twelve pounds, one hundred cents; untarred cordage and yarn, per one hundred and twelve pounds, one hundred and fifty cents; twine and pack thread, per one hundred and twelve pounds, three hundred cents; salt, per bushel, twelve cents; malt, per bushel, ten cents; coal, per bushel, three cents; boots, per pair, fifty cents; shoes, slippers and goloshoes, made of leather, per pair, seven cents; shoes and slippers, made of silk or stuff, per pair, ten cents; wool and cotton cards, per dozen, fifty cents; playing cards, per pack, ten cents; all China ware, looking glasses, window and other glass, and all manufactures of glass ( black quart bottles excepted ) twelve and a half per centum ad valorem; marble, slate, and other stones, bricks, tiles, tables, mortars and other utensils of marble or slate, and generally all stone and earthen ware, blank books, writing paper, and wrapping paper, paper hangings, pasteboards, parchment and vellum, pictures and prints, painter's colors, including lampblack, except those commonly used in dyeing, gold, silver, and plated ware, gold and silver lace, jewellery and paste work, clocks and watches, shoe and knee buckles, grocery, ( except the articles before enumerated ) namely, cinnamon, cloves, mace, nutmegs, ginger, anniseed, currants, dates, figs, plums, prunes, raisins, sugar candy, oranges, lemons, limes, and generally all fruits and comfits, olives, capers, and pickles of every sort, oil, gunpowder, mustard in flour, ten per centum ad valorem; cabinet wares, buttons, saddles, gloves of leather, hats of beaver, felt, wool, or a mixture of any of them, military ready made, castings of iron, and slit and rolled iron, leather tanned or tawed, and all manufactures of which leather is the chief value, except such as herein otherwise rated, canes, walking sticks and whips, clothing ready made, brushes, anchors, all wares of tin, pewter, or copper, all or any of them, medicinal drugs, except those commonly used in dyeing, carpets and carpeting, all velvets, velverets, satins, and other wrought silks, cumbrics, muslins, muslincts, lawns, laces, gauzes, chintzes, and colored calicoes, and nankeens, seven and a half per centum ad valorem.
