What's the difference between blancmange and vanilla?
Blancmange
Definition:
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) As well as being a pallid substitute for actual creativity – a device for making grey business wonks mistake themselves for David Bowie at his experimental peak – these books are the direct suit-and-tie office-dick equivalent of those embarrassing motivational self-help tomes that prey on the insecure, promising to turn their life around before dissolving into a blancmange of "strategies" and "systems" and above all excruciating metaphors.
(2) "One of the problems engaging with this 'big society' idea is that it is such a blancmange.
(3) The flesh rolled away like blancmange, soft and gassy with putrefaction.
(4) With developers calling the shots, while planners egg them on, the future of the City’s silhouette looks set to be a lumpy blancmange.
(5) Ruby's looks less like a brain and more like a dropped blancmange.
(6) By the time they had raced to 4-0, there were hardly a pair of buttocks that remained in their paid-for seats, and Andy Murray rivalled any supporter in the place for eyes-out commitment as French resistance was reduced to blancmange – or very nearly a limp bagel.
(7) However, the man they once cruelly nicknamed Mr Flanby, after a wobbly and bland blancmange-like desert, the man the opposition accuses of political vacillation and indecision, showed he could indeed show resolve when it was called for.
(8) After the initial relief subsided, I began to feel progressively worse, like a blancmange sliding off a plate.
(9) "Miss, miss," said the boy, "they've given me blancmange, and I don't like blancmange!"
(10) If Hollande came across as inoffensive, indecisive and a tad wobbly, hence the Flanby nickname after a blancmange-like dessert, behind the scenes he was working to build a solid power base of popular support among socialist voters across France.
(11) Within this general lumpy mould – which has the look of a mauled blancmange from some angles – he has started slicing away more specific areas.
(12) "We were allowed only one spoonful of blancmange each because they didn't know how long it would have to last."
(13) If you want to drink real ale while listening to 1980s synth classics from Sparks and Blancmange, this is the place to do it.
(14) Photograph: Hayes Davidson “It looks like a raspberry blancmange,” says Richards.
(15) It was a rare attack from the blancmange-coloured shirts on a grey north London afternoon, with the piles of displaced earth and the huge steel armature of the new stadium now rising above the open corner at one end.
Vanilla
Definition:
(n.) A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.
(n.) The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and V. claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Simmer for 2 minutes then stir in the orange zest, orange blossom water and vanilla extract.
(2) Makes around 20 75g butter, melted 75g granulated sugar 1 tbsp vanilla sugar 160g oats 2 tbsp cocoa powder 3 tbsp strong coffee, cooled to room temp Desiccated coconut, to finish 1 Whisk the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then stir in the vanilla sugar, oats, cocoa and coffee.
(3) We might not be able to do all of that at once,” she said, while reeling off a set of vanilla policy objectives by Democratic standards: healthcare reform, energy independence, new jobs, education standards and pulling troops (carefully) out of Iraq.
(4) The procedure has been adapted to the analysis of other products including domestic vanilla extracts and imitation vanilla flavorings for vanillin, ethyl vanillin, 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde and piperonal.
(5) Boston cream doughnuts Thick vanilla custard and a chocolate glaze: these are the foundations of the Boston Cream pie.
(6) For the custard 4 egg yolks 400ml double cream 60g caster sugar 1 tbsp cornflour 1 tsp vanilla essence (or ½ vanilla pod, split) 1 Whisk the egg yolks for a minute in a largish heat-proof bowl (you need to be able to whisk the hot cream in later without worrying about it spilling over.)
(7) If you pick up the remote and select good old vanilla BBC1, you only get to glimpse a few seconds of BBC1 before it displays a screen telling you to cough up.
(8) And for down days, when even more sweet comfort is called for, serve it slightly warm, in a thick wedge with lots of vanilla ice-cream.
(9) Orange and vanilla flavors are currently being marketed and sold, but sellers are not identifying the companies using them and the companies are not identifying themselves.
(10) A total of 122 samples of vanilla ice cream, the base product used for all flavors, prepared by eight different large firms at the Metropolitan Area of Caracas, Venezuela, were analyzed for aerobic mesophilic and psicrophilic bacteria, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacteriaceae, and Filamentous fungi.
(11) For a bit of a performance, order a Trailblazer (tequila, vanilla, orange and chocolate) and watch award-winning Aussie bartender Nick literally play with fire.
(12) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan, Cardiff, veggischmooze.blogspot.com Makes 10 blintzes 200g plain flour A pinch of salt 50g butter or margarine, melted 25ml olive oil 400ml milk 2 organic free-range eggs A little oil, to fry Icing sugar and sour cream, to serve For the filling 300g soft cheese 15g vanilla sugar Grated zest of ½ lemon 1-2 tbsp lemon juice, to taste Pinch of salt 50g chopped raisins or dried fruit (optional) Icing sugar and sour cream to serve 1 Put all the pancake ingredients apart from the oil and filling in a food processor and whizz.
(13) When we were little, she was always tempting us with sugary treats: a bottomless Smarties bin and her legendary coke floats – a lump of vanilla ice-cream fizzing in a glass of cold cola.
(14) Vanilla and banana smoothie George Blomfield's vanilla and banana smoothie.
(15) In this study, 5 food products (chocolate milk, pasteurized cheese, nonfat dry milk, evaporated milk, and vanilla ice cream), selected as representative dairy products, were analyzed by 11 collaborating laboratories.
(16) Recipe supplied by Bronte Aurell, Scandi Kitchen, scandikitchen.co.uk Vanilla-fried rhubarb on sugar brioche Almost like jam on toast, the rich sugary brioche is a good backdrop to the sharp rhubarb.
(17) Results indicate that sucrose was both preferred and considered sweeter than fructose in sugar cookies, white cake, and vanilla pudding; however, the reverse was true in lemonade.
(18) Overall, vanilla was found to be most similar to sugar.
(19) Satire can provide a fragrant drop of vanilla essence to the custard pie of protest.
(20) Statistical analyses of pH measurements and microbiological methods have been employed to monitor microbial activity (spoilage) in a brand of non-refrigerated mango and vanilla flavoured ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk drinks in Nigeria.