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.
7-593: 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". The name
14-527: Is derived from the Welsh word for a similar dish made from sour oatmeal and husks, llymru , which is of unknown origin. It is also attested in variant forms such as thlummery or flamery in 17th and 18th century English. 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. A pint of flummery
21-553: The Dictionary of National Biography , Sir Clements R. Markham, a descendant from the same family, refers it to another contemporary of the same name, whose monument is still to be seen in Laneham church. Gervase Markham was buried at St Giles's, Cripplegate , London, on 3 February 1637. Markham was a voluminous writer on many subjects, but repeated himself, and sometimes reprinted books under other titles. His booksellers procured from him
28-579: 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. Gervase Markham Gervase (or Jervis ) Markham (ca. 1568 – 3 February 1637) was an English poet and writer. He
35-517: Was acquainted with Latin and several modern languages, and had an exhaustive practical acquaintance with the arts of forestry and agriculture . He was a noted horse-breeder, and is said to have imported the first Arabian horse to England. Very little is known of the events of his life. The story of the murderous quarrel between Gervase Markham and Sir John Holles related in the Biographia (s.v. Holles) has been generally connected with him, but in
42-671: Was best known for his work The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman , first published in London in 1615. Markham was the third son of Sir Robert Markham of Cotham, Nottinghamshire , and his wife, and was probably born in 1568. He was a soldier of fortune in the Low Countries , and later was a captain under the Earl of Essex 's command in Ireland . He
49-555: 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. 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
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