Frumenty

Lady Robinson, of Whitby, writes (1931): ‘Frumenty is still eaten on Christmas Eve with cheese and gingerbread in this neighbourhood.’ Mr. Herbert M. Bower sends a Ripon recipe and informs us that, however it may be spelt, the name of this old dish is pronounced ‘frummety.’

Mr. J. Wedgewood Myatt, writing from Stoke-on-Trent, says ‘I can remember frumenty being brought in cans for sale and being ladled out. … I fancy it was called by many different names in different counties and the wheat was got in the gleaning principally.’ He sends a recipe dated 1882.