Furmety

Ingredients

• To two cupfuls of milk
• four cupfuls of water
• a level teaspoonful of salt
• half a cupful of ' pearl ' or whole wheat
• Serve with sugar
• cinnamon
• cream
• and stewed prunes

Method

1. 1

   Bring milk and water to a boil.

2. 2

   Add salt and wheat, stirring constantly until it boils.

3. 3

   Cook in a double boiler for three hours.

4. 4

   Serve with sugar, cinnamon, cream, and stewed prunes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Books and My Food: With Literary Quotations and Original Recipes for Every .. (1904) by Elisabeth Luther Cary, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

furmety, where dainty swum The streaking sugar and the spotting plum." — John Clare. FURMETY was of old favored in having two days when it was especially appropriate to serve it — " Mothering-day " and Christmas — and for the tray of the invalid unable to eat 225 the traditional plum pudding it was a not unacceptable substitute. To two cupfuls of milk add four cup- fuls of water and bring to the boiling point; add a level teaspoonful of salt and half a cupful of " pearl " or whole wheat. Stir constantly until it boils, then place in the upper part of a double boiler, the lower part of which is filled with boiling water, and cook for three hours. Serve with sugar, cinnamon, cream, and stewed prunes

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