blancmange

Meanings

1. A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla.
2. Something soft, weak, and wobbly.
3. A dish, eaten in the Middle Ages, generally consisting of chicken (or sometimes capon or fish), milk or almond milk, rice, and sugar.

Etymology

From Middle English blancmanger, blomanger, from Old French blanc mangier (“white food”). The pudding evolved from the chicken dish. Compare French blanc-manger.