Frumenty

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Frumenty (sometimes furmity) was a popular food dish in the Middle Ages in Europe. 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.

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.

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