Jelly vs. Blancmange — What's the Difference?

A soft, semisolid food substance with a resilient consistency, made by the setting of a liquid containing pectin or gelatin or by the addition of gelatin to a liquid, especially such a substance made of fruit juice containing pectin boiled with sugar.

Blancmange (, from French: blanc-manger [blɑ̃mɑ̃ʒe]) is a sweet dessert commonly made with milk or cream and sugar thickened with rice flour, gelatin, corn starch or Irish moss (a source of carrageenan), and often flavoured with almonds. It is usually set in a mould and served cold.

Something, such as a petroleum ointment, having the consistency of a soft, semisolid food substance.

A flavored and sweetened milk pudding thickened with cornstarch.

A shapeless, pulpy mass

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

Something, such as a body part, that has suddenly become limp or enervated

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

A jellyfish.

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.

A jelly sandal.

Sweet almond-flavored milk pudding thickened with gelatin or cornstarch; usually molded

To cause to have the consistency of jelly.

To acquire the consistency of jelly

A dessert made by boiling gelatine, sugar and some flavouring (often derived from fruit) and allowing it to set, known as "jello" in North America.

A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Normally known as "jam" in Commonwealth English but see redcurrant jelly and jeely

Clipping of jelly coconut

A savoury substance, derived from meat, that has the same texture as the dessert.

Any substance or object having the consistency of jelly.

(zoology) A jellyfish.

A pretty girl; a girlfriend.

A large backside, especially a woman's.

(colloquial) gelignite

(colloquial) A jelly shoe.

Blood.

(India) vitrified brick refuse used as metal in building roads.

(transitive) To make into jelly.

(transitive) To preserve in jelly.

To wiggle like jelly. en

(slang) Jealous.

Anything brought to a gelatinous condition; a viscous, translucent substance in a condition between liquid and solid; a stiffened solution of gelatin, gum, or the like.

The juice of fruits or meats boiled with sugar to an elastic consistence; as, currant jelly; calf's-foot jelly.

To become jelly; to come to the state or consistency of jelly.

A preserve made of the jelled juice of fruit

An edible jelly (sweet or pungent) made with gelatin and used as a dessert or salad base or a coating for foods

A substance having the consistency of semi-solid foods

Make into jelly;