Confectionery
Confectionery is the art of making confections, which are food items that are rich in sugar and carbohydrates. Exact definitions are difficult. In general, though, confectionery is divided into two broad and somewhat overlapping categories, bakers’ confections and sugar confections.Bakers’ confectionery, also called flour confections, includes principally sweet pastries, cakes, and similar baked goods.
Sugar confectionery includes candies (sweets in British English), candied nuts, chocolates, chewing gum, bubble gum, pastillage, and other confections that are made primarily of sugar. In some cases, chocolate confections (confections made of chocolate) are treated as a separate category, as are sugar-free versions of sugar confections. The words candy (US and Canada), sweets (UK and Ireland), and lollies (Australia and New Zealand) are common words for the most common varieties of sugar confectionery.
The confectionery industry also includes specialized training schools and extensive historical records. Traditional confectionery goes back to ancient times and continued to be eaten through the Middle Ages into the modern era.
Confectionery (noun)
Foodstuffs that taste very candies, sweetmeats and confections collectively.
Confectionery (noun)
The business or occupation of manufacturing confectionery; the skill or work of a confectioner.
Confectionery (noun)
A store where confectionery is sold; a confectioner’s shop.
Confectionary (adjective)
Relating to, or of the nature of confections or their production.
“confectionary wares”
Confectionary (adjective)
Prepared as a confection.
Confectionary (noun)
A candy, sweetmeat; a confection.
Confectionary (noun)
A place where confections are manufactured, stored; a confectory.
Confectionary (noun)
A confectioner’s shop; a confectionery.
Confectionary (noun)
One who makes confections; a confectioner.
“He will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks. — 1 Samuel viii. 13.”
Confectionary (noun)
Candy, sweets, taken collectively; confectionery.
Confectionery (noun)
sweets and chocolates considered collectively
“a confectionery company offering hand-made chocolates”
“items of confectionery”
Confectionery (noun)
a shop that sells sweets and chocolates
“chocolate and fudge are made daily at the village confectionery”