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Frumenty (sometimes furmity) was a popular food dish in European medieval cuisine. It was made primarily from boiled, cracked wheat. Different recipes added milk, eggs or broth. Other recipes include almonds, currants, rum, sugar, saffron and orange flower water. Frumenty was served as a side-dish to meats, traditionally venison and occasionally porpoise.[citation needed]

For several centuries, frumenty was part of the traditional celtic Christmas meal.

The dish, described as 'Furmity' and served with fruit and a slug of rum added under the counter, plays a major role in the plot of Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. It is also mentioned in Lewis Carroll's "[Through_the_Looking-Glass Through the Looking Glass]" as a food that snap-dragon flies live on.

References

  • Black, William. (2005). The Land that Thyme Forgot. Bantam. ISBN 0593 053621. p. 346
  • Middle Ages recipes