I have lost two words

[MaMight]

This is not actually pendantry, but I thought I would have most luck if I put it to the Pedants' Corner squatters.

Two separate questions:

1. This morning I called my daughter a "daft bessom" and then realised that I have only ever read the word 'bessom' and don't know it's literal meaning. Not wanting to unwittingly use an offensive word, I looked it up... and can't find it anywhere. There is a word bessom isn't there? What does it mean?

1. Years ago I had a 'Word of the Day' calendar. It gave me a word that means a collections of jams, marmalades, honeys etc. It was the breakfast equivalent of 'condiments' I loved this word and used it as often as I could poncily shoe-horn it into conversation. Now I have forgotten it completely. Anyone know?

PS apologies for any spelling or grammar mistakes. I'm not really literate enough to post here, I know .

MaMight - have you remembered this word yet?

I have not slept for days - days I tell ya! - due to the suspense

fanjolina, I'm with you!

MaMight - we need to know!

MaMight - I still need to know this word!!!

Me too!

Me too. Even if you can't remember it, can you just make up a word and tell us in an authoritative manner so that we believe you and we can stop thinking about it?

Agree - I spent valuable time last night looking up possibles. I need to know.

I even phoned my parents to ask them.

ROFL almost a month later and still no answer?

I came across the word "victuals" today and I thought of this thread. Now, I'm delighted to see that it's not been mentioned before so therefore it must the the right word and you can all relax and put it out of your heads!

I don't think it is victuals.

Hooked on this now, although I see interest has died down recently. MaMight, are you still following this thread?

Just checking in in case the word has been found...

There's a word that means salt and pepper and bits like that, but I can't dredge it up just now... It may come to me in the middle of the night. It hasn't been mentioned yet though.

condiments?

I think Mrs Beeton might have the answer.

tracklements

It's can't be tracklements as that is savoury:

Q] From Jay Coughlin: Can you tell me if the word tracklements is just obsolete or a non-word?
[A] It?s a real word, a delightful one. It?s not obsolete, but it?s not widely known; it is used almost exclusively in Britain, and not especially often there. It refers to any kind of savoury condiment served with meat, such as rowan jelly. I first learned the word when we bought a pot of mustard many years ago from the Tracklement Company, and in databases the word turns up most often in that firm?s name.

BettyButterKnife, are you thinking of a cruet?

breakfast reverie or maybe jentacular condiments

JJ - I am! Thank you!

do we not know yet? This is driving me potty.

my money is on breakfast reverie

Compote?

Something general like accoutrements?

Gah! I have been to the Library specifically to see their reference copy of Rex Collings' A Crash of Rhinoceroses: A Dictionary of Collective Nouns.
No mention of jams nor preserves.

Someone put us out of our misery. Please!

an accompaniment of condiments?