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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flan
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Come dessert time, the fresh guavas in cream or the not too sweet, ultra creamy flan is a must.
▪ Make the pastry and use it to line a 10-inch shallow fluted flan tin.
▪ Pour filling into the flan case and bake for 35-50 minutes until firm to the touch.
▪ Roll out pastry and line an 8in fluted flan ring.
▪ Spoon the filling into the flan case or on to the biscuit base and smooth the top.
▪ Spoon the mixture into the prepared flan case and chill until set.
▪ Vaughan's eyes light up when she describes the bright greens of this flan against the buttery yellow of the sauce.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flan

"open tart," 1846, from French flan "custard tart, cheesecake," from Old French flaon "flat-cake, tart, flan" (12c.), from Medieval Latin flado (10c.), which probably is from Frankish *flado or another Germanic source (compare Old High German flado "offering cake," Middle High German vlade "a broad, thin cake," Dutch vla "baked custard"), from Proto-Germanic *flatho(n) "flat cake," probably from PIE root *plat- "to spread" (see plaice). Borrowed earlier as flawn (c.1300), from Old French.

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flan

Etymology 1 alt. 1 bake tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case (the only meaning in UK) 2 Type of custard dessert, popular in Spanish-speaking countries (both the pastry version and this one may be called flan in the USA). Called ''crème caramel'' in UK 3 (context numismatics English) A flat metal disk used to strike coins. n. 1 bake tart with sweet or savoury filling in an open-topped pastry case (the only meaning in UK) 2 Type of custard dessert, popular in Spanish-speaking countries (both the pastry version and this one may be called flan in the USA). Called ''crème caramel'' in UK 3 (context numismatics English) A flat metal disk used to strike coins. Etymology 2

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WordNet
flan

n. open pastry filled with fruit or custard

Wikipedia
Flan (disambiguation)

Flan is a kind of sweet or savoury pie in English cuisine.

Flan may also refer to:

  • Crème caramel or Flan de leche, especially in Spanish-speaking areas and in the United States
  • Quiche, a kind of savoury pie with custard filling in French cuisine
  • Flan or planchet, a blank metal disk to be struck as a coin
Flan (Greyhawk)

In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, the Flan are a race of humans living in the Flanaess. The Flan peoples were the first humans known to have settled the eastern portion of the continent of Oerik, the Flanaess, which is named for them. Regions of the Flanaess that contain a significant number of Flan peoples include Geoff, Sterich, the Rovers of the Barrens, Tenh, and the Wolf Nomads.

Pre-migrations Flan are described in the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting's Guide to the World of Greyhawk as "hardy and capable hunters but not particularly warlike, and their small and scattered groups made no appreciable civilizing efforts." This is a simplification, for the Flan boast several pre-Migrations cultures, including those found at Sulm in the Bright Desert, Veralos on the edge of Rift Canyon, Tostehnca in the Griff Mountains, and several others.

Flan

Flan is an open pastry or sponge cake containing a sweet or savoury filling. A typical flan of this sort is round, with shortcrust pastry, usually coated with sweet syrup. It is similar to a custard tart or a South African melktert.

British savoury flans may have diverged from the Spanish and French custard flans (also known as crème caramel) in the Middle Ages.

Flan (album)

Flan is the third studio album by Dogbowl, released in 1992 by Shimmy Disc.

Usage examples of "flan".

I could cook, bake, stew, make soups, salads, flans, cakes, tarts, trifles .

For gates that are closer, such as those between Ty Station and the planet Flan, the recharge time is only a minute or two.

But the reapplication of her lipstick and the sexiness of that would have to wait until after flan.

The last of them passed the Flan gate a few seconds after your arrival in the bottle.

There were pies and puddings, flans and flummeries, saffron seedcakes, cloudy white bread and soft yellow butter, raspberries, pears, strawberries and honeyed figs, creamy curd, truffles, and crystal goblets encircling dark wine.

Spears and axes and torches were dropped as the remaining nomads spread their flan and chivaned for their lives.

Thirty minutes later, after Dorotea had eaten a flan covered with dulce de leche, a sweet, chocolatelike substance made by boiling milk for hours, she kissed Clete chastely on the cheek, and marched off with Beth and Marjorie down a corridor in the right wing of the sprawling house to her guest room.

Redcurrant tarts, bilberry scones, plumcakes, latticed apple pies, strawberry flans and damson puddings radiated out into patterns, dotted by bowls of nutcream, meadowcream, Abbeycream, rosecream and buttercup fondant.

I have flan and bread pudding yet to do, and I know Brian will need the ovens for something.

Just when I thought I would have to summon a wheelchair to get me to the car, the waitress took away all the platters and bowls, and started bringing desserts-apple pies, chocolate cakes, bowls of homemade ice cream, pastries, flans and God knows what else.

Oatfarls, cottage loaves and batons of ryebread, all hot from the ovens with their crusts gleaming brown, lay scattered between vegetable flans, shrimp and hot-root soup and massive deeper *n' ever turnip V later 'n' beetroot pies beloved by moles.

The serfs were bringing coffee and deserts, blueberry lemonade sorbets and almond flan with fruits and cheeses.

The money she made on the flans was money for her skill, she wasn't stealing from The Mount's store cupboard.

Plates of sandwiches and cakes had been upended all over the floor, and a great jug of milk dripped its last into a huge white puddle on the floor, beside which Maggie was languidly licking the last of the whipped cream out of Kitty's strawberry flan.