He fancied that he had some mysterious internal malady, and would eat nothing but frumenty, a preparation of wheat; and his plaintive way of talking of his disease, as if he were someone else, was droll in the extreme.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
It is more generally known as frumenty; you will find it mentioned in Washington Irving's "Christmas," where the squire makes his supper off it on Christmas Eve-no doubt because it was the traditional fasting dish for the Vigil of the Nativity.
"Far Off Things"
Arthur Machen