Anyways, while I'm waiting for the blanching water to boil (seriously blanche, is that even a real word?) might as well clean the cutting board.
Funnily, that's the third meaning I learned (over time) for "blanche." The first I ever heard of the word was because it's the name of the command-line tool to manage MIT mailing lists. That tool (and some other related tools) is named after a character in "A Streetcar Named Desire".
Later, someone in one of my student groups created a blanche wrapper called "parboile," a word which I was also unfamiliar with, and at that point, I learned what "blanche" in the cooking sense was. ("parboile" also turns out to be a cooking term.)
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Funnily, that's the third meaning I learned (over time) for "blanche." The first I ever heard of the word was because it's the name of the command-line tool to manage MIT mailing lists. That tool (and some other related tools) is named after a character in "A Streetcar Named Desire".
Later, someone in one of my student groups created a blanche wrapper called "parboile," a word which I was also unfamiliar with, and at that point, I learned what "blanche" in the cooking sense was. ("parboile" also turns out to be a cooking term.)