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Bisket Comfits

Posted August 2019 
by Stephen Schmidt 

Candied citrus peel, either in pieces or ground and pressed into small shapes, coated in a smooth or rough hard candy shell. Confusingly, “bisket comfits” are often called simply “biskets” in seventeenth-century recipes.

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