Flummery
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| Type | Pudding |
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| Place of origin | Great Britain |
| Main ingredients | Starch grains, milk |
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Flummery is a starch-based, sweet, soft dessert pudding which originated in Great Britain during the early modern period. The word has also been used for other semi-set desserts.
History and etymology
The name is first known in Gervase Markham's 1623 Countrey Contentments, or English Huswife (new ed.) vi. 222 "From this small Oat-meale, by oft steeping it in water and clensing it, and then boyling it to a thicke and stiffe jelly, is made that excellent dish of meat which is so esteemed in the West parts of this Kingdome, which they call Wash-brew, and in Chesheire and Lankasheire they call it Flamerie or Flumerie".[1][2]
The name is derived from the Welsh word for a similar dish made from sour oatmeal and husks, Script error: No such module "Lang"., which is of unknown origin. It is also attested in variant forms such as thlummery or flamery in 17th and 18th century English.[3][4] The word "flummery" later came to have generally pejorative connotations of a bland, empty, and unsatisfying food. From this use, "flummery" developed the meaning of empty compliments, unsubstantial talk or writing, and nonsense.[3]
A pint of flummery was suggested as an alternative to 4 ounces (110 g) of bread and a 0.5 imperial pints (0.28 L) of new milk for the supper of sick inmates in Irish workhouses in the 1840s.[5]
Australasian "flummery"
In Australia and New Zealand, post-World War II, flummery was the name given to a completely different dish, a mousse dessert made with beaten evaporated milk, sugar, and gelatine. Also made using jelly crystals, mousse flummery became established as an inexpensive alternative to traditional cream-based mousse. In the Queensland town of Longreach, it was a staple food in the 1970s and in the New South Wales town of Forbes, it was a fall-back dessert in the 1950s. The American writer Bill Bryson described flummery as an early form of the blancmange dessert known in the United States.[6]
See also
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Markham, Gervaise (1623). Countrey Contentments, or English Huswife.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History of Flummery". Foods Of England. Retrieved 17 April 2025.
- ^ a b Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. "flummery".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Online Etymology Dictionary". Archived from the original on 2017-09-09. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Poor Law Commission Office (1842). Eighth Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners. London: William Clowes & Sons. p. 263.
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- ^ in his book Made in America
External links
- Page Template:Sister-inline/styles.css has no content.Script error: No such module "Sister project logo". The dictionary definition of flummery at Wiktionary
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