"Blancmange" is a creamy dessert made with milk or cream, sugar, and gelatin.
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We learned about it in culinary school as part of our training in classic French cuisine, but it was made and used long before the French transformed it into
delicate blancmanges.
I
love blancmange, but never attempted making my own, I better give it a go, yours looks absolutely mouth - watering!
All this is necessary if Cameron is to avoid looking
like blancmange to Brown's basalt.
Dishes might
include blancmange — a thick puree of rice and chicken moistened with milk from ground almonds and then sprinkled with sugar and fried pork fat.
For all those who missed the red carpet arrivals, it was a typically regal affair in a sea of spectacular yet inappropriate dresses (we're looking at you Audrey Tautou in
pink blancmange Lanvin), lots of TV reporters running around looking lost and A Single Man director Tom Ford wearing his own Tom Ford tux.
And so what if the blood of popular enthusiasm runs slightly higher for Wes Anderson's latest scoop of
cinematic blancmange, nationally (and semi-pointlessly) premiering at the festival on its Opening Night the day before it hits New York theaters?
The 3008 doesn't quite approach the realms of GTI - on - stilts, but it's not a bad effort and makes rivals like the Nissan Qashqai feel
positively blancmange - like without resorting to a punishing ride or uncivil road manners.
It's notably more incisive than less focused Fiestas, which are
hardly blancmanges to drive as it is.
It brought with it a unique, retro look and refined underpinnings that made it a spicy alternative to
relatively blancmange big cars.
This was my first attempt at making
a blancmange.
Once the exciting caviar that thrilled the political appetite, now diminished into
the blancmange of pointless pap and commercial tedium.
Dropping
a blancmange down Terry Wogan's Y - fronts was their only policy.
The former cabinet minister Ed Davey felt that Clegg showed strong leadership in difficult circumstances, but that the party's manifesto was «
blancmange».
Irish moss is famous for setting the frothy New England fanciness,
blancmange, when boiled in milk, and what keeps seaweeds flexible and slippery is also what keeps ice cream, lipstick, and shaving cream smooth.
«I would look at someone and all I could see was
blancmange.
«Before the op, I would look at someone and all I could see for their face was
blancmange,» says Jonathan Wyatt.
Let's face it, if any word is going to lose all meaning after saying it more than a couple of times, «
blancmange» is a pretty good candidate.
I like to use «
blancmange».