Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Hulled wheat boiled in milk and flavored with sugar and spices.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dish made of hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned, especially used in England and in some of the southern United States at Christmas.
- noun Wheat mashed for brewing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Food made of hulled wheat boiled in milk, with sugar, plums, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A porridge made by boiling hulled wheat, typically with additional ingredients such as milk, egg yolks, and/or almond milk, traditionally served with venison or porpoise. Frumenty was often the first dish on the menu of a medieval English feast.
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- noun sweet spiced porridge made from hulled wheat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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PROOF OF THE PUDDINGThe origins of Christmas pudding are found in a medieval Christmas stew of meat, fat, onions and dried fruits called "frumenty".
Move over Heston Blumenthal, I know how to make the perfect Christmas pud 2011
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The second main Ur-pudding was a pottage or soup called frumenty, a fast dish involving cracked wheat, currants and almonds which was ladled out at the start of a meal.
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It apparently would have reminded the Pilgrims of frumenty which is sort of a thick wheat porridge made with spices and sugar and almond milk, and served with venison and mutton.
The WritingYA Weblog: Writing the Story, Stirring the Pot tanita davis 2008
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It apparently would have reminded the Pilgrims of frumenty which is sort of a thick wheat porridge made with spices and sugar and almond milk, and served with venison and mutton.
Archive 2008-11-01 a. fortis 2008
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A dish once prominent at Christmas was "frumenty" or "furmety" (variously spelt, and derived from the Latin _frumentum_, corn).
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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There are two types of frumenty - sweet, which is made with sheeps milk, eggs and wheat flour while sour frumenty is made with yoghurt instead of milk.
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The frumenty will swell and the resulting mixture will thicken.
Archive 2009-01-01 Haalo 2009
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There are two types of frumenty - sweet, which is made with sheeps milk, eggs and wheat flour while sour frumenty is made with yoghurt instead of milk.
Archive 2009-01-01 Haalo 2009
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Heat up the milk in a saucepan and when just simmering, stir in the frumenty.
Archive 2009-01-01 Haalo 2009
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The frumenty will swell and the resulting mixture will thicken.
BrainyBabe commented on the word frumenty
Boiled wheat, usually with milk, eggs, dried fruit. Occasionally strengthened with alcohol. Served with meat (cf pudding in the savoury sense) or as a farmhouse breakfast on Christmas Day, way back when in post-medieval England. Also spelled "furmenty", "formity", and other variants. An important plot component in Thomas Hardy's ''The Mayor of Casterbridge''.
December 28, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word frumenty
"They passed within twenty yards of each other on either side of the frumenty seller's striped tent, Pell and Bean heading toward the grounds of the cathedral, Joe Ridley to the nearest tavern."
The Bride's Farewell by Meg Rosoff, p 38
June 25, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word frumenty
"To follow there were desserts such as frumenty, a sweet porridge of wheat boiled in milk and spices, and sugary confections of spices and dried fruits, washed down with spiced wine and ale..."
--Jack Turner, _Spice: The History of a Temptation_ (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004), 105
December 2, 2016
qms commented on the word frumenty
He's downed milk and cookies aplenty
So after a weary descent he
Is pleased with the treat
Of hot milk and wheat,
For Santa is fond of frumenty.
December 25, 2016
chained_bear commented on the word frumenty
Usage/historical note on mawmenee.
January 8, 2017
chained_bear commented on the word frumenty
"The first course of frumenty, wheat porridge with scrambled eggs often served, as here, with venison, was a standard medieval item."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 30.
November 27, 2017