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blancmange

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A flavored and sweetened milk pudding thickened with cornstarch.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In cookery, a name of different preparations of the consistency of jelly, variously composed of dissolved isinglass, arrowroot, corn-starch, etc., with milk and flavoring substances.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Cookery) A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English blankmanger, a dish made with almond milk, from Old French blanc mangier : blanc, white (of Germanic origin; see bhel- in Indo-European roots) + mangier, to eat, food (from Latin manducāre; see manger).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Old French: blanc mangier (white food)

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Examples

  • To serve, dip the jelly mould into a bowl of hot water to loosen the blancmange from the mould, then quickly turn it out into the centre of a serving plate.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Mrs Frog 2009

  • To serve, dip the jelly mould into a bowl of hot water to loosen the blancmange from the mould, then quickly turn it out into the centre of a serving plate.

    Blancmange with Raspberry Sauce Mrs Frog 2009

  • I became hooked on freshly-pressed passion-fruit purée and probably drank several glasses a day, and also on the gorgeous pudim de maracuja, something like passion-fruit blancmange only delicious in a way that the term 'blancmange' would seem to render pretty unlikely, which my favourite rather scruffy neighbourhood restaurant, the "Tangerina", served.

    Odd echoes and reminders, and dream-casts, and day-dreams... Imogen 2009

  • I became hooked on freshly-pressed passion-fruit purée and probably drank several glasses a day, and also on the gorgeous pudim de maracuja, something like passion-fruit blancmange only delicious in a way that the term 'blancmange' would seem to render pretty unlikely, which my favourite rather scruffy neighbourhood restaurant, the "Tangerina", served.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Imogen 2009

  • But isn't that "blancmange" if I'm remembering my Monty Python correctly?

    languagehat.com: OLD DISEASE NAMES. 2004

  • First person I’ve ever seen who’s writing style is best described as blancmange fFreddy

    Reverse Engineering Hegerl et al. « Climate Audit 2006

  • Third: Be classy and smart, or at least sound classy and smart - brush up on the history of some rare wines, find out about good music (doesn't include death metal), and learn how to pronounce 'blancmange'.

    EzineArticles 2010

  • Then she nailed "blancmange", a moulded dessert, and "baignoire", a low theatre box.

    SiliconIndia.com 2009

  • Remember the fuss everybody made about Jason Reitman's blancmange dish Up in the Air last year?

    Paramount has the last laugh with Jackass 3D Jeremy Kay 2010

  • The financial correspondent of the Telegraph referred to it as “hitting the market with all the impact of a feather coming to rest on a blancmange”, an insult which has rankled ever since.

    Matthew Yglesias » Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned 2009

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