zests are sometimes served at the close of the dessert; such as anchovy toasts or biscuits.
"The Book of Household Management"
Mrs. Isabella Beeton
Then he always said it was very dangerous for a married woman to have any zest in life apart from her husband, and I used to answer that he had no end of zests apart from me, and what was I to do during the long evenings when he was eternally playing bridge.
"Modern marriage and how to bear it"
Maud Churton Braby