Frumenty: Cracked Wheat Porridge with Honey & Fruit

Name: Frumenty: Cracked Wheat Porridge with Honey & Fruit
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 bowls
Ingredients: 1 cup coarse bulgur (cracked wheat) (175 g); 2 cups water; 1 pinch kosher salt; 1½ cups milk (or oat or almond milk); ¼ tsp ground cinnamon; ⅓ cup raisins or chopped dried apricots; 2 tbsp honey; ¼ cup sliced almonds, toasted (25 g)

The Abbey's Morning Bowl

Frumenty was wheat boiled soft in milk and sweetened for feast days. With quick-cooking cracked wheat it takes twenty minutes: creamy, nutty, warm with cinnamon, with raisins and toasted almonds on top.

Fork or mugMake-aheadVegetarian

Prep5 min

Cook20 min

Total25 min

Yield4 bowls

At the table: Warm, covered, up to 30 minutes.

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As written: cracked wheat simmered in milk.
Toast the bulgur in a spoon of butter until it smells nutty before the water goes in.
Start from whole wheat berries, soaked overnight and simmered about an hour, the old way.
Serve as a feast dish: golden with saffron, in warm bowls, with poached pears and a ribbon of cream.

Cooking at Hearth. The dish as written. Simple, honest, done well.

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Why nowWhole-grain wheat gives a breakfast that keeps you going, and it is a dish nearly every medieval kitchen knew.

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Ingredients

Party size

As written: 4 bowls.

Kosher salt means Diamond Crystal. With Morton kosher salt, use about half.

Method

Bring the water and salt to a boil in a saucepan. Stir in the bulgur, cover, and simmer on low for 10 minutes.
Add the milk, cinnamon and raisins and simmer uncovered, stirring often, for 6 to 8 minutes.
Look forCreamy and thick, like loose oatmeal.
Off the heat, stir in the honey. Spoon into bowls and top with the almonds.

Make ahead

Keeps 3 days in the fridge. Reheat with a splash of milk; it thickens as it sits.

Holding

Warm, covered, up to 30 minutes.

Allergens

Contains wheat, milk, tree nuts (almonds). Always check labels on packaged ingredients.

Notes

Dairy-free: use oat or almond milk. Nut-free: top with toasted oats or sunflower seeds.

Gluten-free: use buckwheat groats (kasha) and simmer about 15 minutes before adding the milk.

Tavern Night

This dish's twist table (d6)

1–2	The classic stands. No twist. Cook it as written.
3	Herb swap. A pinch of saffron in the milk, the old feast-day way
4	Acid strike. Top with a spoon of tart stewed berries
5	Plating challenge. Serve in mugs with a spoon standing up
6	Host's boon. The Host picks any twist above, or the table invents one. The safety rule still applies.

Roll before you start cooking. No twist ever changes a time, a temperature or how done something must be.