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Confiture
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Elderberry confiture (jam)
Type Jam, marmalade, paste, sweetmeat, or fruit stewed in thick syrup
Main ingredients Fruit

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 "preserved"; a confit being any type of food that is cooked slowly over a long period of time as a method of preservation.

  • Bassine à confiture

    A copper bowl for cooking confiture

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Confitura para niños

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