verb

• (transitive) To make up, prepare, or compound; to produce by combining ingredients or materials; to concoct.
  "The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness."
• (transitive, obsolete) To make into a confection; to prepare as a candy, sweetmeat, preserve, or the like.
  "Not all the Ointments brought from Delos Ile; / Nor from the confines of ſeuen-headed Nile; / Nor that brought whence Phœnicians haue abodes; / Nor Cyprus wilde Vine-flowers, nor that of Rhodes, / Nor Roſes-oile from Naples, Capua, / Saffron confected in Cilicia; / Nor that of Quinces, nor of Marioram, / That euer from the Ile of Coös came."

noun

• (obsolete) A rich, sweet, food item made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; a confection, comfit.
  "Princes and Counties! ſurely a princely teſtimonie, a goodly Counte, Counte Comfect, a ſweete Gallant ſurely, O that I were a man for his ſake!"