confect

To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.

The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness.

The young bride's friends confected a dress from odds and ends of fabric.

To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.

Not all the Ointments brought from Delos Ile; / Nor from the confines of ſeuen-headed Nile; / Nor that brought whence Phœnicians haue abodes; / Nor Cyprus wilde Vine-flowers, nor that of Rhodes, / Nor Roſes-oile from Naples, Capua, / Saffron confected in Cilicia; / Nor that of Quinces, nor of Marioram, / That euer from the Ile of Coös came.

A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.

Princes and Counties! ſurely a princely teſtimonie, a goodly Counte, Counte Comfect, a ſweete Gallant ſurely, O that I were a man for his ſake!

Caraway Comfects, once only dipped in Sugar, and half a ſpoonful of them eaten in the morning faſting, and as many after each meal is a moſt admirable Remedy for ſuch as are troubled with Wind.