blancmange

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla.

   ““That looks too pretty to eat,” he said, smiling with pleasure, as Jo uncovered the dish, and showed the blanc-mange”

2. isim Something soft, weak, and wobbly.
3. isim A dish, eaten in the Middle Ages, generally consisting of chicken (or sometimes capon or fish), milk or almond milk, rice, and sugar.

   “Chaucer's Cook made blancmange with the best of them, according to the Prologue to the Tales. There were two versions of this popular dish in Chaucer's day, one made with fish and the other with capon or chicken.”