Striped Blancmange

Blanc Menger Party

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6-8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Great Cooks and Their Recipes

By Anne Willan

Published 1977

  • About

This recipe for blanc menger is unusual in that it contains no chicken or fish, but only almonds and rice, exactly like the old-fashioned children’s blancmange. Party here means “in parts” and the mold is set in gaily striped layers, showing the medieval love of colored foods. Preparing the red, green, blue, and yellow dyes must have been a major task; Taillevent uses bugloss or sunflower for red, a