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===Literary references===
''Frumentee'' is served with [[venison]] at a banquet in the mid-14th century North Midlands poem ''[[Wynnere and Wastoure]]'': "Venyson with the frumentee, and fesanttes full riche / Baken mete therby one the burde sett", i.e. in modern English, "Venison with the frumenty and [[pheasant]]s full rich; baked meat by it on the table set".<ref>{{cite web |title=Wynnere and Wastoure - Robbins Library Digital Projects |website=University of Rochester (NY) |at=lines 334-5 |url=http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/ginsberg-wynnere-and-wastoure |url-status=dead |archive-date=2 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241202114816/http://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/ginsberg-wynnere-and-wastoure }}</ref> The dish also appears, likewise paired with venison, at the New Year feast in the Middle English poem known as ''The [[Alliterative Morte Arthure]]'' (c. 1400): "Flesh flourisht of fermison, with frumentee noble."<ref>''The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation.'' Trans. Simon Armitage. New York: W. W. Norton, 2012. Line 180.</ref>

The dish, described as 'furmity' and served with fruit and a slug of [[rum]] added under the counter, plays a role in the plot of [[Thomas Hardy]]'s novel ''[[The Mayor of Casterbridge]]''. It is also mentioned in [[Lewis Carroll]]'s ''[[Through the Looking-Glass]]'' as a food that snap-dragon-flies live on. [[Snap-dragon (game)|Snap-dragon]] was a popular game at Christmas, and Carroll's mention of frumenty shows it was known to him as a holiday food.{{Citation needed|date=April 2021}} It also appears in a girl's recitation of holiday traditions, in ''[[My Lady Ludlow]]'', published 1858, by [[Elizabeth Gaskell]]: "furmenty on Mothering Sunday, Violet cakes in Passion Week" (Chapter 2).