Английская Википедия:Flummery

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Flummery is a starch-based, sweet, soft dessert pudding known to have been popular in Britain and Ireland from the 17th to 19th centuries. 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, Шаблон: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 Шаблон:Convert of bread and a Шаблон:Convert 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 different foodstuff, 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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