But by four o'clock the first basket of plums was stoned, the sugar weighed, and a huge copper basin of confiture was merrily boiling on the stove.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
For provisions they had nothing but some tins of confiture de singe.
"War"
Pierre Loti
I suppose you do it on the same principle as nurses recommend children nasty medicines, or as old Levett used to tender me dry biscuit sans confiture: ''Tisn't so nice as marmalade, I know, Master Philip, but then, dear, it's so wholesome!
"Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories"
Ouida