When one offers sweetmeats, one does so 'in order to destroy hunger and disease (ksudh-roga vin-san-ya)'.
Other possessions included three silver tankards, eighteen silver spoons and three sweetmeat silver spoons.
The difference in these cakes, in their sweetmeats, and their elder wine, is that there is a dash of spice about them not ordinarily met with.
It is on the more expensive brands of chocolates and on the huge consumption of candy and other sweetmeats.
One order refers to homeworking in: "the manufacture of chocolates or sweetmeats, and any work incidental thereto".
The sugar position, actual and prospective, is not such that any additional issues of sugar for the manufacture of sweetmeats can, at present, be contemplated.
Actual and prospective sugar supplies will not permit of increased issues of sugar being made to the manufacturers of sweetmeats.
I interpret it as the collective name for sweetmeats and confections.
