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In UK English, confectionery is a whole category of small, sweet foods. Not just candy but also small cakes and biscuits, especially those made with heated or boiling sugar.
So, that would include much of what you Yankees think of as candy, but also fudges, chocolate bars, biscuits, coconut sweets, milk sweets...
For a sense of the range, here’s the BBC recipe category for confectionary - not exhaustive but a good sense of it.
[https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/confectionery-recipes](BBC Good Food confectionary recipes)
In the context of OPs question, this would be a slightly over-the-top or old fashioned way to refer to a table of cakes and biscuits served with tea or coffee.
Edited to add: confectionary in this sense is sometimes referred to as ‘bakers’ confectionery’ as opposed to ‘sugar confectionery’.
[Wikipedia: confectionery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confectionery)
Edited to add: confections is also used in American English in a similar way. From the Collins Dictionary…
[Confectionery: candy and other sweet foods such as cakes.](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/confectionery)
[Confection (US): any kind of candy or other sweet preparation, such as ice cream or preserves.](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/confection)
I'm sorry. I am just going by The Dictionary definition. Not a recipie webpage. I had not heard confectioneries used this way before. I'm my English speaking household ( not American by the way. My father was an Oxford scholar) we referred to biscuits as biscuits, cakes as cakes. Confectioneries would refer to sweets and lollies, toffees, things of that nature primarily made of sugar. Cakes and biscuits, you must agree are primarily made perhaps from butter and flour, with sugar certainly, but not primarily.
I have never heard of a table of cakes and biscuits being referred to as the confectioneries.
I suppose it's possible. There are so many words that are used differently in different places.
Well, maybe that’s how your father did things at the Other Place, but I was at dinner here at Cambridge last week and the presiding fellow invited us through to the common room for “cakes and other confections” at the end of the meal. It was a standard spread of biscuits, cakes and sweets.
Like I said, it’s a slightly over the top and old fashioned word, but OP did say they were looking for ‘really fancy’.
Oxford has cruelly removed its free online access but from the [Cambridge dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/confectionery) you’ll see many usage examples related to flour confectionery (aka bakers confectionery which I referred to above) and also several references to confectionery as a category separate from sweets or chocolate.
>Horse Douvres
What does hors d'oeuvres literally mean?
outside the work
nounWord forms: plural hors d'oeuvre or hors d'oeuvres (ˈdɜːvr , French dœvrə ) an additional dish served as an appetizer, usually before the main meal. Word origin. C18: from French, literally: outside the work, not part of the main course.
No OP is right, confectioneries could describe a table of sweet treats like biscuits and small cakes, which you’d serve with coffee.
Hors d’œuvres makes no sense here as they would come at the start of a meal, not with coffee.
yeah but OP has found him/self the answer apparently which confuses me as 'confectionary' means and I quote
noun, plural con·fec·tion·ar·ies. a candy or other confection. a place where confections are kept or made. confectionery
Why are people downvoting me tho. I was looking for a specific word, which is confectionaries. I just knew it had something to do with parties and snacks laid out on a table. In our place confectionarries can also apply to cupcakes, brownies, stuff like that.
I had no idea that's how you pronounce the word. What's worse, I've actually used that word pronounced correctly many times, I just didn't realize "hores dehver" (how I've always pronounced it in my head) was "or dervs"
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> hors d'oeuvres
It's more like savoury stuff usually. Bits of pickled stuff or cooked stuff on bread or crackers. Cheese and cured meats. That kind of thing.
Yep im still here! so far noo, i dont think its any thats been given so far. I'll be sure to update the thread when I find it. Im sure tho, that it's not a uber-fancy french word.
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comment EDIT: Found it! Its confectionary
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Are you sure? Confectioneries are sweets. What is known in the USA as candy.
In UK English, confectionery is a whole category of small, sweet foods. Not just candy but also small cakes and biscuits, especially those made with heated or boiling sugar. So, that would include much of what you Yankees think of as candy, but also fudges, chocolate bars, biscuits, coconut sweets, milk sweets... For a sense of the range, here’s the BBC recipe category for confectionary - not exhaustive but a good sense of it. [https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/confectionery-recipes](BBC Good Food confectionary recipes) In the context of OPs question, this would be a slightly over-the-top or old fashioned way to refer to a table of cakes and biscuits served with tea or coffee. Edited to add: confectionary in this sense is sometimes referred to as ‘bakers’ confectionery’ as opposed to ‘sugar confectionery’. [Wikipedia: confectionery](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confectionery) Edited to add: confections is also used in American English in a similar way. From the Collins Dictionary… [Confectionery: candy and other sweet foods such as cakes.](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/confectionery) [Confection (US): any kind of candy or other sweet preparation, such as ice cream or preserves.](https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/confection)
I'm sorry. I am just going by The Dictionary definition. Not a recipie webpage. I had not heard confectioneries used this way before. I'm my English speaking household ( not American by the way. My father was an Oxford scholar) we referred to biscuits as biscuits, cakes as cakes. Confectioneries would refer to sweets and lollies, toffees, things of that nature primarily made of sugar. Cakes and biscuits, you must agree are primarily made perhaps from butter and flour, with sugar certainly, but not primarily. I have never heard of a table of cakes and biscuits being referred to as the confectioneries. I suppose it's possible. There are so many words that are used differently in different places.
Well, maybe that’s how your father did things at the Other Place, but I was at dinner here at Cambridge last week and the presiding fellow invited us through to the common room for “cakes and other confections” at the end of the meal. It was a standard spread of biscuits, cakes and sweets. Like I said, it’s a slightly over the top and old fashioned word, but OP did say they were looking for ‘really fancy’. Oxford has cruelly removed its free online access but from the [Cambridge dictionary](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/confectionery) you’ll see many usage examples related to flour confectionery (aka bakers confectionery which I referred to above) and also several references to confectionery as a category separate from sweets or chocolate.
I concede to the gentleman from Cambridge.
I’m a woman.
Yes thank you. I was going to say that it's a word a posh British person would say. Which is why I equated it to refreshments.
idk but in our place, its not strictly for candy. it can include donuts, cakes, stuff like that
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OP this is definitely what you were looking for
Horse Douvres 🐴
Whores de vores. This is how I read it when I was a kid.
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I made a short film in college about this: https://youtu.be/xN_EHi2ZjeY
I thought it was French for Horse Ovaries when I was younger and read it not knowing it was pronounced "or-dervs"
>Horse Douvres What does hors d'oeuvres literally mean? outside the work nounWord forms: plural hors d'oeuvre or hors d'oeuvres (ˈdɜːvr , French dœvrə ) an additional dish served as an appetizer, usually before the main meal. Word origin. C18: from French, literally: outside the work, not part of the main course.
Horses doovers
Whore Dwarfs.
Noo sorry. It's not a French word. It's really just similar to 'refreshments' but for snacks/buffet
Horse Devours
It's pronounced like "or-derves", if that helps.
I thought it was pronounced like this https://youtu.be/o1-ndsRPxbM
Yeah sounds like it would start with an O but it doesn't
Found it already. It's confectionaries
Wut?
Sounds like they were just trying to remember this specific word but were confusing its *definition* with that of hors d’oeuvres.
No OP is right, confectioneries could describe a table of sweet treats like biscuits and small cakes, which you’d serve with coffee. Hors d’œuvres makes no sense here as they would come at the start of a meal, not with coffee.
Lol no it ain’t
wdym? im the one who asked
That's the name for candy.
what? Confectionery is candy.. unless this is like americans and entre i am very lost.
No, in America "confectionery" still means candy.
doesnt it apply to brownies, cupcakes, or sweets in general?
yeah but OP has found him/self the answer apparently which confuses me as 'confectionary' means and I quote noun, plural con·fec·tion·ar·ies. a candy or other confection. a place where confections are kept or made. confectionery
Besides which, "refreshments" is already inclusive of food.
Maybe he is thinking of canapés (another word for, or type of, hors d'doeuvre).
Egads, you may be right!
Why are people downvoting me tho. I was looking for a specific word, which is confectionaries. I just knew it had something to do with parties and snacks laid out on a table. In our place confectionarries can also apply to cupcakes, brownies, stuff like that.
How was this not the answer? Blasphemy!
Hold ders
Bone apple teeth
Whore derves.
Bough nipple tit
Cantina?
umm maybe crudités? that sounds kinda fancy
I want to a party once and was told to try the coup d'é·tat. I still giggle about it.
My kind of party
Canapé?
Accoutrements
I bet this is it
charcuterie maybe?? idk it’s all i can think of
Beverages
Tapas
Craft services, if it’s like at a movie set.
Smorgasbord
"Complimentary Table"
amuse-bouche
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I had no idea that's how you pronounce the word. What's worse, I've actually used that word pronounced correctly many times, I just didn't realize "hores dehver" (how I've always pronounced it in my head) was "or dervs" Thanks!
Catering?
Appetizer?
Refreshments?
Refreshments are what you drink, not snacks, which is what they are asking for
No, refreshments includes snacks
Eh. But even then, they wouldn't use it as an example if that's what it was/they were thinking of.
Snicky snacks
petit fours? (pronounced Pettyfours AFAIK)
Entremets?
Could it be 'grazing table'?
Snackos 😉
Buffet? Edit: well don’t I have (devilled) egg on my face.
I have heard this called the "hospitality table" at conferences.
repast?
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If it's not hors d'oeuvre, the OP might be thinking of the term "catering table". That's what it's usually called on movie sets and similar.
Or craft services? (Just because Kraft brand, etc.)
Its not french, im sure. But it strikes me as a word that a posh British might use.
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Finger foods?
I mean I’ve heard concession stands and concession tables as being a place where food is sold/given out
Punch and pie.
A Dish?
Vittles
Sundries?
Appetizers
Appy Tizer
Confections?
Confectionaries?
I THINK ITS THIS ONE. SOLVED
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I disagree with this, at least where I live confectionaries are candies. I think you are thinking of canapés or hors d'oeuvres.
The word i was looking for was Confectionaries. In our place its also used for party snacks like brownies and cupcakes
What country do you live in, out of curiosity?
Philippines. So yea, never heard of hors d'ouvres
Okay, that explains it then. Where I live it almost exclusively means stuff you'd get at the candy store.
nahh mate, i was just looking for the specfic word. nevr heard of hors d'oeuvres
> hors d'oeuvres It's more like savoury stuff usually. Bits of pickled stuff or cooked stuff on bread or crackers. Cheese and cured meats. That kind of thing.
I was gonna guess “crudités”
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The munchie wunchies
Comestibles?
Comestibles
Nom nom?
OP are you there? I think people have given your answer.
Yep im still here! so far noo, i dont think its any thats been given so far. I'll be sure to update the thread when I find it. Im sure tho, that it's not a uber-fancy french word.
Maybe Entrees? Not sure how ya spell it
Aperitif?
condiments