crystallized fruit

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

candied fruit, succade

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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The dish uses a big green bell pepper filled with ground meat and the crystallized fruit. Then almond is poured on it, creating the colors of the Mexican flagwhite, green and red.

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Fine points such as the offerings brought to Donna Teresa's lavish funeral servicea"cakes, chocolates, crystallized fruit, and bottles of winea"and the sumptuous trappings of the Uzeda manor alternate with Donna Chiara's deformed and miscarried fetus being preserved in a glass jar.

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Other innovations included edible spoons made from puff pastry and short crust that can be filled; honey in a pouch; fine-spun caramel "cages," inside of which are sweet surprises like bitter chocolate, pistachio flakes, marzipan and crystallized fruit and nougat; and small, slender "bottles" of various culinary oils in what look like CD cases that fit together inside a book that can grace your bookshelf (presumably in the kitchen).