blancmange vs casserole

blancmange

noun
  • A dish, eaten in the Middle Ages, generally consisting of chicken (or sometimes capon or fish), milk or almond milk, rice, and sugar. 

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

casserole

noun
  • Food that fills the high-walled dish or pan that it was cooked in. 

  • Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish. 

  • A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served. 

verb
  • To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew. 

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