succade

(səˈkeɪd)

(Cookery) fruit preserved in sugar or syrup

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succade - fruit cooked in sugar syrup and encrusted with a sugar crystals

candied fruit, crystallized fruit

confiture - preserved or candied fruit

crystallized ginger - strips of gingerroot cooked in sugar syrup and coated with sugar

candied citrus peel - strips of citrus peel cooked in a sugar syrup

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I found two pots of very good succades, or sweetmeats, so fastened also on the top that the salt-water had not hurt them; and two more of the same, which the water had spoiled.

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The only relief they had was, their water was not all spent, and they had about half a barrel of flour left; they had sugar enough; some succades, or sweetmeats, they had at first, but these were all devoured; and they had seven casks of rum.

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This unusual phrase splices the proverbial 'to bear meat in the mouth', meaning to be a source of profit (financial or moral), with marmalade and succade (fruit preserved in sugar), a combination mentioned by early modern authors as the epitome of the delicacy.

Underemployed Elizabethans: Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe in the Parnassus Plays

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