(n.) A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat.
(n.) A composition of drugs.
(n.) A soft solid made by incorporating a medicinal substance or substances with sugar, sirup, or honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
(2) This 90s pop confection had torn tights, a sulky attitude and high regard for Quentin Tarantino.
(3) Quite often, when the media reports a coalition "row" between the Tories and the Lib Dems, it has been confected by one or both of them because someone thinks it suits them to be seen on opposing sides of an issue.
(4) Apart from the confected row about the renewal of Trident , the two main parties seem curiously indifferent to what is going on beyond Britain’s shores, unless it involves immigration.
(5) There are palatial piles, puffed up confections of domes and turrets, alongside low-slung sheds, streamlined intersecting planes oozing the free flow of democracy.
(6) It is surely one of the intellectual catastrophes of history that an imperialist war confected by a small group of unelected US officials was waged against a devastated third world dictatorship on thoroughly ideological grounds having to do with world dominance, security control and scarce resources, but disguised for its true intent, hastened and reasoned for by orientalists who betrayed their calling as scholars.
(7) MIA emerged on the music scene in the mid-2000s, the perfect antidote to confection pop.
(8) Such metaphysical questions underlie the confection of her plot.
(9) In view of the considerable sales success of sugarless confections, accounting for over an estimated 30,000,000 lbs.
(10) On the other hand, the mutagen-negative diet was significantly frequent in fresh vegetables, cooked potatoes, cooked carrots, milk, bean curd, devils' tongue and confections.
(11) Fifty monkeys were fed SMA, a formula designed for human infants (9% protein, 43% carbohydrate, and 48% fat); 46 were fed one of three laboratory-confected diets varying in the amount of protein and carbohydrates provided.
(12) In 1987’s No Way Out, she glints brilliantly in a Hitchcocky confection.
(13) The results confirmed that Lycasin would be preferred to sucrose as a sweetener for confections and medicines, although some softening of enamel by Lycasin was evident when compared to the saline controls.
(14) Andy Burnham , Caroline Flint – sensible Labour falls over itself to show who is the most realistic, where realism stands for accepting without question a vision of the country confected by their opponents.
(15) Most that claimed "Jeremy thinks" and "Jeremy is furious with Vince" turned out to be – so Hunt insisted – exaggerated by Michel or mere recycled titbits confected by Smith to feed the News Corp beast.
(16) Whether this highly aerated, minimally nutritious confection was actually invented in the United States or here remains fiercely contested, though sadly the myth that Margaret Thatcher was involved in its creation while working as a research chemist at the food conglomerate J Lyons & Co has been fairly thoroughly debunked.
(17) Apart from the approach routes, particular features of the technique used were essentially the size of the frontal flap extending to orbital roof, and mainly the confection of a pericranial flap formed of epicranial aponeurosis lined with frontoparietal periosteum and pedunculated at the orbital border.
(18) Others argue that the sense of a sectarian crisis – most notably over Syria – has been confected by the Assad regime.
(19) A controversial issue will often bring a blizzard of identikit protest of apparently confected anger but while clearly this lobby was organised most of the emails and letters we received were personal and heartfelt.
(20) I know what you're thinking: Christmas DVDs, promotional tours, robotically confected controversy … none of these really feel like the answer to the question: "What would Spartacus do?"
Pastry
Definition:
(n.) The place where pastry is made.
(n.) Articles of food made of paste, or having a crust made of paste, as pies, tarts, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Donors ate a typical Israeli breakfast of salad, cheese, yoghurt and pastries.
(2) Place on a large baking tray and fold over the edges to give a 1cm pastry border.
(3) Filo pastry contains very little fat itself but relies on fat being added later in between incredibly fine sheets, allowing them to separate during cooking, and so shatter in the mouth into fine delicate shards.
(4) 3 Once chilled, line the pastry with crumpled baking parchment and then with baking beans or dried pulses and bake blind for 15 mins.
(5) Gently fold the pastry surrounding the tin base inwards so it is on the base.
(6) BBQ Champ, which will be hosted by Adam Richman, the American presenter of cult TV hit Man V Food, will feature Bake Off-style challenges but swaps pastries and cupcakes for burgers and kebabs.
(7) What I enjoy doing is teaching people how to make pastry, and it really is easy, so I would like to share some of what I know,” she said.
(8) The recipe below is for 10 classic shortcrust pastry tarts but it can easily be modified.
(9) There is a big choice of salads at lunch and brunch is served at the weekend, but the best plan is to enjoy afternoon tea – with a dozen different brews to choose from, accompanied by freshly-baked pastries.
(10) This handling range is particularly important for laminated pastries, such as filo, which require layers of solid fat.
(11) 8.47pm BST Frances is wrapping little pastry horns around tiny steel cones.
(12) This air then expands on heating, giving height to your pastry.
(13) His light touch with pastry and flair for eclairs – always baked with a signature pencil perched behind his ear – have won over the hearts and tastebuds of the Great British Bake Off judges.
(14) 6 Pour the custard mix into the pastry case, then grate the nutmeg on top (do not use ready-ground nutmeg).
(15) During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees.
(16) On paper, the main difference between puff and shortcrust pastry appears to be the fat content.
(17) Roll out the pastry thinly, and line the prepared tin with it.
(18) Line the tin with the pastry, pressing into the fluted edges of the tin.
(19) Feed consumed by rats fed with the corresponding commercial pastries was low except in date bars group.
(20) He was once an extravagant cook, a person who made pastry and boeuf bourguignon.