Sugarplums

A round "plum shaped" sweet made candied or dried fruit in a surround of fondant. From Davidson's Oxford Food Companion "A small round or oval sweetmeat, made of boiled sugared and variously flavoured and coloured, a comfit." The earliest mention of this particular food is 1668. The term also has another meaning "Something very pleasing or agreeable, esp. when given as a sop or bribe,"