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[Welsh llymru, soft jelly from sour oatmeal.]
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Old English pudding made by boiling down the water from soaked oatmeal until it becomes thick and gelatinous, then mixed with milk, buttermilk, or yoghurt and left to ferment. Similar to frumenty. Dutch flummery is made with gelatine or isinglass and egg yolk; Spanish flummery with cream, rice flour, and cinnamon.
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[FLUHM-muh-ree] 1. A sweet soft pudding made of stewed fruit (usually berries) thickened with cornstarch. 2. Old-time British flummeries were made by cooking oatmeal until smooth and gelatinous; sweetener and milk were sometimes added. In the 18th century, the dish became a gelatin-thickened, cream- or milk-based dessert, flavored generously with sherry or madeira.
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Flummery is a sweet soft pudding that is made from stewed fruit and thickened with cornstarch.
Traditional British flummeries were like porridge as they were often oatmeal based and cooked to achieve a smooth and gelatinous texture; often sugar and milk were added and occasionally orange flower water. The dish is typically bland in nature. The dish gained stature in the 17th century where it was prepared in elaborate molds and served with applause from the dining audience. The writer Bill Bryson described flummery as an early form of blancmange in his book Made in America.
The word also came to mean generally dishes made with milk, eggs and flour in the late seventeenth and during the nineteenth centuries.[1] The word Flummery later came to have more negative connotations as a bland, empty and unsatisfying food. This connotation was picked up in the word "flummery" meaning an empty compliments, unsubstantial talk or writing, and nonsense.[2]
A pint of flummery was suggested as an alternative to 6 ounces of bread and a 1/2 pint of new milk for the supper of sick inmates in Irish Workhouses in the 1840s.[3]
Flummery is also used to denote intentionally confusing speech, flim-flam. "This is not the age of reason, this is the age of flummery, and the day of the devious approach. Reason’s gone into the backrooms where it works to devise means by which people can be induced to emote in the desired direction."[4]
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| Translations: Flummery |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - melpap, creme, tant og fjas
Nederlands (Dutch)
meelpap, zoet dessert, vleierij, onzin, onzinnige ceremonie
Français (French)
n. - (Culin) bouillie, flagornerie
Deutsch (German)
n. - leere Schmeicheleien, Blödsinn
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μαγειρ.) κουρκούτι, (μτφ.) κουραφέξαλα, σαχλαμάρες, κολακεία
Italiano (Italian)
budino alla crema, sciocchezza
Português (Portuguese)
n. - papa (f) ou mingau (m) (Culin.)
Русский (Russian)
пустяки, вздор
Español (Spanish)
n. - pavadas, flan
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kall pudding, nonsens (vard.)
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
麦粥, 假恭维, 柔软易食的食品, 胡说
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 麥粥, 假恭維, 柔軟易食的食品, 胡說
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 커스터드류의 식품, 허튼소리
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مديح أجوف, هراء
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מליצות נבובות, הבלים, מאכל מתוק מביצים, סוכר ועוד
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