Both confit and confiture are French words that essentially mean to preserve. Many people are confused between these words due to their similar pronunciation and their overall meaning.
It is also a French word that means the confection or preserve of the fruit. The word confiture is commonly translated into jams, marmalades, and preserves.
When it comes to baking, confit basically refers to the process or way of cooking and preserving a fruit in sugar or a sweet syrup.
It is done in order to replace the water in the fruit with sugar, which helps preserve the fruit for a longer period of time.
Ingredients For confit, you will need sugar, fruit, water, spices, or lemon juice. When it comes to confiture, fruit, sugar, spices or herbs (optional), and gelatin or pectin.
Confit generally gets cooked in a slightly shorter time than confiture taking 10–60 minutes, whereas confiture takes 20–60 minutes.