What You Need to Know
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 literally means 'preserved'; a confit being any type of food that is cooked slowly over a long period of time as a method of preservation.
Steps
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Confiture de lait (France): Dulce de leche-style milk jam
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Murabba (Middle East): Whole fruit preserves in syrup
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Yakgwa (Korea): Honey-preserved pastry