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custard Definition

cus·tard (kus′tərd)

noun

  1. a mixture of eggs, milk, flavoring, and, often, sugar, either boiled or baked
  2. frozen custard

Etymology: ME, altered < crustade, any dish baked in a crust, ult. (? via Prov crostado) < L crusta, crust

custard Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • pour: Best served warm with pouring custard, made with baby's usual milk.
  • bake: In England, it is an intrinsic addition to dairy desserts such as baked egg custard.
  • cool: Stir the chopped stem ginger and vanilla essence into the cooled custard.
  • make: Then make a custard by beating 3 eggs with 1/2 c milk, salt annd pepper.
  • flavor: Use the emptied pod to flavor a custard or dessert sauce.

Adjective modifier

  • foamy: However anyone who is interested in the premise of foamy custard will want to read the whole book.
  • lumpy: She loves chips and hate sprouts and lumpy custard.
  • creamy: And, for pudding - plump for fruity baked crumble, surrounded by a moat of hot creamy custard.
  • homemade: Freshly homemade, custard has a delicate flavor all of its own.
  • hot: Dan ate his usual mammoth plate of spaghetti, followed by hot custard.
  • fresh: Fresh custard can be bought from all good supermarkets.

Modifies a noun

  • tart: We found what we were looking for, coffee and fabulous little custard tarts, in what's left of the old town.
  • pie: The custard pie routine seemed to expand beyond the scripted version!
  • powder: Blend the custard powder with a little of the milk.
  • cream: Yes, dessert: fried custard cream with warm chocolate sauce.
  • apple: I have some custard apple trees, the fruit aren't quite ripe yet.
  • mixture: Pour the custard mixture over the bread which will float to the surface.

Noun used with modifier

  • vanilla: Water brings out cherries, apples and vanilla custard with a drying finish.
  • egg: Pour half of the egg custard mixture over the panettone.
  • cream: Blackadder: Your cream custard has the texture of cat's vomit.
custard Quotes

Whatever isfunny issubversive, every joke isultimatelya custard pie† A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack uponmorality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

—Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair