For Blanch we have terms and definitions in 7 topics. The topics are Botanical, Cooking, Culinary, Food, Gardening, Health and Heraldry.

Blanch (Botanical)

From the Old French word blanchir, to whiten. As a gardening term, it is used to describe a process of excluding light so as to make the plant material lighter in color and more tender. For example, this is commonly done with endive.

Blanch (Cooking)

To plunge food briefly into boiling water, then into cold water to stop the cooking process. This process is performed to firm the flesh, loosen skins, and to heighten and set the color and flavor of foods.

Blanch (Culinary)

To plunge into boiling water or oil for the purpose of whitening as in bones, retaining colour without fully cooking as with vegetables

Blanch (Food)

Cooking foods in boiling water for a brief period of time. This applies primarily to vegetables so as to reduce their final cooking time. But blanching may be done to fish or meat as well.

Blanch (Gardening)

To keep light from the leaves and stems, keeping the pant tissue soft (i.e. endive is grown this way).

Blanch (Health)

To make white or pale; to take color out

Blanch (Heraldry)

White. {Argent.]
"Nor who, in field or foray slack,
Saw the blanche lion e'er fall black?"
-Scott: Lay of the Last Minstrel

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