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Walms

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© Randal Oulton

Walms is a cooking term used to track how much something has been boiled.

A walm is an “surge upwards of boiling water”, when a circular “wave” of water rises from the bottom of the pot and breaks the surface in a surge.

Cookbooks would give directions such as, “and so let it boil six or seven walms….”: six or seven surges of boiling water. Cooking instructions might also tell you to bring the water to a boil till “it boil high with great walms in the middle of the kettle.”

Outside of boiling water, walms can also refer to a surge of waves, or a gush of a fountain.

Language Notes

Walm comes from the Old English word for spring, “wielm.” It is now considered obsolete.

This page first published: Jun 21, 2006 · Updated: Jun 5, 2018.

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