Much has been said about the horrors of Jell-O salad, a dessert Ina Garten urges you not to bring to dinner parties. One of its predecessors, however, started out as something even more unappetizing.

Flummery, a semi-set dessert, was popular in Ireland and Britain from the 17th to the 19th century. Including oatmeal, honey – and whiskey for an extra kick – this is a dessert with a difference. In ...

A flummery is a whipped dessert, here laced with apple and lemon. It’s an inconsequence, a fluff, a nothing ... except in flavour. Ready for a comeback - the humble flummery. Credit: Feast Place ...

I’ve been flummoxed, flabbergasted and flustered. But I’ve never been in a flummery — and for good reason. It’s yet another one of those engaging, endearing and slightly silly fruit dessert words.

David Smith on the origins of the jelly and condensed milk dessert Recent letters about desserts made with jelly and evaporated milk (27 December) reveal an interesting backstory, going back at least ...

The French call this flamri de semoule, and the recipe is based on one by Dione Lucas and Rosemary Hume in their 1937 book Le Petit Cordon Bleu. Whipping the raw egg white with boiling semolina cooks ...