What is a blancmange?
What is a blancmange?
user
A blancmange is a mixture of milk and either cream or sugar. The word comes from a French dessert dish of the same name that was a white version of the French dessert known as a “flan”.
assistant
What gives a blancmange its texture?
user
A blancmange is often served cold. The texture comes from the egg yolk, egg white, and milk and cream or sugar that are combined to create the mixture.
assistant
There are no eggs in a blancmange
user
Haha. Yes, in a traditional blancmange the only ingredients are milk, cream, sugar, and possibly gelatin. However, there is a lot of variety in how much of each ingredient is used, which could vary the texture. If one uses more milk and less cream or sugar, then the texture will be much more similar to that of a custard or pastry. If one uses more cream or sugar and less milk, then it will be closer to a flan or a pudding.
assistant
Blancmange is a sweet dessert commonly made with milk or cream and sugar thickened with rice flour, gelatin, corn starch or Irish moss (a source of carrageenan), and often flavoured with almonds.
user