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Encyclopedia > Flan

Flan may refer to any of the following: a flan IS a pie it says so on the pie page, it is a tart which is a pie, so there

  • In British English usage, flan may be various kinds of tart or cake with a sweet or savoury filling, often custard-based, and traditionally served on New Year's Eve.
  • In the US, and in Spanish, flan is a crème caramel.
  • An egg-based savoury dish closely related to quiche.
  • A flan (IPA /flæn/ - rhymes with American-English "fan"), a term applied to fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly. Also called Browncoats. It originated from a slip of the tongue by actor Nathan Fillion during an interview, when talking about Firefly fans. (Wikiquote transcription)
  • Flans, a popular Mexican vocal trio consisting of Ilse Olivo, Ivonne Guevara, and Mimi Hernandez.
  • In numismatics, a flat metal disk used to strike coins.

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Flan Characteristics, Grading & Quality of Ancient Coins - Calgary Coin (1928 words)
The flans on which ancient coins were struck were made by a variety of methods, but their flan making technologies were limited and often the flans were imperfectly formed, and many suffered some deformation during striking.
The oval flan created this impression and thus reduced the eye-appeal of this specimen, slightly detracting from its value when compared to a specimen with similar centering on a round flan, although it is still worth more than a normal specimen of this type, with a third of the inscription off the flan.
Flan cracks differ from flan splits in that they do not open into a "V", and in some cases may not be open at all which makes them easy to overlook and difficult to see on an image.
Flan (876 words)
Flan may be prepared in a soufflè dish or in individual ramekins or flan dishes.
Flan may also be baked in a tart pan or a pan with a removable bottom.
However, traditional flan is both richer and denser than crème caramel, as it contains more eggs and yolks as well as some milk, light whipping cream, half and half, and/or sweetened condensed milk.
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