frumenty

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From Middle English furmente, from Old French fourmenté, from furment (grain), from Latin frūmentum. Doublet of furmint.

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frumenty (usually uncountable, plural frumenties)

  1. (chiefly historical) 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.
    • Family MS. of the Cunliffes. Quoted by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in the note to her poem, Christmas in the Olden Time, 1650. (1835): 'Their entertainment was, a large hall of curious ashler work, a long table, plenty of furmenty like new milk, in a morning, made of husked wheat, boiled and roasted beef, with a fat goose, and a pudding, with plenty of good beer for dinner.'

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frumenty

  1. Alternative form of furmente