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Frumenty

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40: 461: 249:, in late spring. On that day many servants were allowed to visit their mothers and were often served frumenty to celebrate and give them a wholesome meal to prepare them for their return journey. The use of eggs would have been a brief respite from the Lenten fast. In Lincolnshire, frumenty was associated with 253:
in June. A diarist recalled of his youth in the 1820s that "almost every farmer in the village made a large quantity of frumenty on the morning they began to clip; and every child in the village was invited to partake of it". A second batch, of better quality, was produced later and taken round in
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Supper is served, of which one dish, from the lordly mansion to the humblest shed, is, invariably, furmety; yule cake, one of which is always made for each individual in the family, and other more substantial viands are also added.
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as a food that snapdragon flies live on. Snapdragon was a popular game at Christmas, and Carroll's mention of frumenty shows it was known to him as a holiday food. It also appears in a girl's recitation of holiday traditions, in
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well that the hulls go all off , and seethe it till it burst, and take it up and let it cool; and take fair fresh broth and sweet milk of almonds, or sweet milk of
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full rich; baked meat by it on the table set". The dish also appears, likewise paired with venison, at the New Year feast in the Middle English poem known as
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and temper it all, and take yolks of eggs. Boil it a little and set it down and mess it forth with fat venison and fresh mutton.
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in little carts carrying little basins of new wheat boiled to a jelly, which was put into a large pot with milk, eggs, and
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whole grains of wheat in water, then strain off and boil in milk, sweeten the boiled product with sugar, and flavour with
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quoted in James Obelkevich, Religion and Rural Society: South Lindsey 1825-1875 (Oxford, 1976), p. 57.
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including three recipes for frumenty. They show considerable variation with place and time.
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describes one of the first English recipes for it in the 1390 manuscript
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The dish, described as 'furmity' and served with fruit and a slug of
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A dish made with boiled cracked wheat and soured milk was made in
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at a banquet in the mid-14th century North Midlands poem
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Index

Furmity

Bartholomeus Anglicus
Pudding
Wheat
milk
eggs
broth
Western European
medieval cuisine
porridge
Latin
wheat
milk
broth
peasant
eggs
almonds
currants
sugar
saffron
orange flower water
pottage
venison
porpoise
Lent
subtlety
Florence White
English Folk Cookery Association
Good Things in England

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