Blancmange
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Blancmange is a sweet dessert made throughout Europe commonly made with milk or cream, and sugar, thickened with rice flour, gelatin or cornflour, and often flavoured with almonds.
A blancmange set on a glass platter
The Catalan menjar blanc, a variant of blancmange made without gelatine and mostly typical from Reus and also from l'Alguer
Durian
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The durian is the edible fruit of several tree species belonging to the genus Durio. There are 30 recognised species, at least nine of which produce edible fruit. Durio zibethinus, native to Borneo, S
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…entremets: edibles that were intended to entertain and delight through a gaudy appearance as much as through flavour. In the 17th century (1666), the durian fruit was compared to blanc-mangé by Alexandre de Rhodes: il est plein d'une liqueur blanche, épaisse & sucrée : elle est entierement semblable au…
Durian fruit cut open to show the edible flesh
The flowers are usually closed during the daytime.
Juvenile tree, Malaysia. Mature specimens can grow up to 50 metres (160 feet).
Durio zibethinus. Chromolithograph by Hoola Van Nooten, circa 1863