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Blancmange is a cold, soft, sweet pudding. You cook milk with sugar and until it , then you chill it until it sets and wobbles like a gentle jelly. In Britain it is an old-fashioned pudding, often white or pink, and children used to eat it a lot; American English hardly uses the word. You say it rather like bluh-monj, not blank-mange. Though actually, the name is older than the pudding on the plate today. It comes from Old French blanc mangier, white food. Hundreds of years ago it was a pale dish of chicken and almonds for rich tables; the meat slowly dropped away, and what remained is this milk jelly. So the word still points at white food, but nobody is serving chicken when they bring out blancmange now.
牛奶凍（西方甜點，台灣少見；別當成杏仁豆腐）
組成From Middle English blancmanger, from Old French blanc mangier, white food (blanc = white, mangier = food / to eat). The pudding grew out of that older white chicken dish. Compare French blanc-manger.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
blancmangenoun/bləˈmɒndʒ/
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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
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Something soft, weak, and wobbly.
- I was a snarler. I prided myself on being a snarler. I would go to great lengths to avoid stereotypical feminine behaviour. I thought that in being outrageous or out of control, which I viewed as synonymous, I was thumbing my nose at the patriarchy. My biggest fear about AA was that I would lose my edge. Turn into blancmange.
- Yet the shootout was only part of the story against tough, obdurate opponents – “animals” according to Chris Waddle in his radio commentary – on a night when Colombia’s supporters had filled this stadium in swathes of bright yellow, bouncing and swaying like human blancmange and creating a raucous din.
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historicalA 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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。