Flan

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A <b>flan</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tart" title="Tart" >tart</a>, a type of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie" title="Pie" >pie</a>, with a base of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortcrust_pastry" title="Shortcrust pastry" >shortcrust pastry</a>. An example is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiche" title="Quiche" >quiche</a>. In both savoury and sweet flans the filling tends to be based on a thick custard. However there are some types of flans not based on custard, such as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakewell_tart" title="Bakewell tart" >bakewell tart</a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_cuisine" title="British cuisine" >British</a> savoury flans may have diverged from the sweeter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_cuisine" title="Spanish cuisine" >Spanish</a> flans in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages" >Middle Ages</a>.<sup class="Template-Fact" >[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" >citation needed</a></i>]</sup>.</p>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan#Etymology" >1 Etymology</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan#Fillings" >2 Fillings</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan#References" >4 References</a></li>

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<h2 >[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flan&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology" >edit</a>]Etymology</h2>

<p >The Modern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language" >English</a> word "flan" and the earlier "flawn" come from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language" >French</a> <i>flan</i>, from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_French" title="Old French" >Old French</a> <i>flaon</i>, in turn from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Latin" title="Medieval Latin" >Medieval Latin</a> <i>fladonem</i>, derived from the Old Castillian <i>flado</i>, a sort of flat cake, probably from an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages" title="Indo-European languages" >Indo-European</a> root for "flat" or "broad".<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan#cite_note-0" >[1]</a></sup></p>

<h2 >[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flan&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Fillings" >edit</a>]Fillings</h2>

<p >There are many fillings that can be put in a flan. A British recipe website lists 29 flan recipes, 9 of which are sweet and 20 savoury,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan#cite_note-1" >[2]</a></sup> while the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_Food_Trust&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="British Food Trust (page does not exist)" >British Food Trust</a> has sixteen, of which six are savoury and ten sweet.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan#cite_note-2" >[3]</a></sup></p>

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<li ><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaons" title="Flaons" >Flaons</a></li>

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<h2 >[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flan&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References" >edit</a>]References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0" ><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan#cite_ref-0" >^{</a></b> }<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary" title="Oxford English Dictionary" >Oxford English Dictionary</a>, 2nd Edition (1989); <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Robert" title="Petit Robert" >Petit Robert</a> 1973.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1" ><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan#cite_ref-1" >^{</a></b> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cookitsimply.com/search/index.php?q=flan&go=Search" >Search=flan at cookitsimply.com</a> (retrieved 13-09-2009)</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" ><b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flan#cite_ref-2" >^{</a></b> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.greatbritishkitchen.co.uk/recipebook/index.php?searchword=flan&option=com_search&Itemid=4" >Flan recipes at greatbritishkitchen.com</a> (retrieved 13-09-2009)</li>

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