A traditional English dish made from hulled wheat grains cooked with milk, sugar, and spices like cinnamon and nutmeg, popular from medieval times through the 19th century.
From Old French 'fromente,' from Latin 'frumentum' (grain). The word traveled through Norman French into Middle English and evolved into various spellings, eventually standardizing as 'furmenty.'
Furmenty was so important to English food culture that it appears in Dickens' novels and survived until the 1800s in some areas—it was basically the predecessor to modern oatmeal!
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