custard
pronunciation
How to pronounce custard in British English:
UK [ˈkʌstəd]
How to pronounce custard in American English:
US [ˈkʌstərd]
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- Noun:
- sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen
Word Origin
- custard
- custard: [15] A custard was originally a pie, which took its name from its ‘crust’ (Anglo- Norman *crustade, the source of the word, was a derivative of Old French crouste, from which English got crust). The earliest English form was crustade, and intermediate spellings crustarde and custade occur. The reference in the name is to the pie’s pastry shell, not to its lid, for it had none: it was an open pie, of meat or fruit, filled up with stock or milk. This liquid was often thickened with eggs, and by around 1600 the term had moved across to name a dish in its own right made of eggs beaten into milk and cooked.=> crust
- custard (n.)
- mid-14c., "meat or fruit pie," crustade, from Middle French croustade (Modern French coutarde), from Old Provençal croustado "fruit tart," literally "something covered with crust," from crosta "crust," from Latin crusta (see crust (n.)). Modern meaning is c. 1600. Spelling change perhaps by influence of mustard.
Example
- 1. Another great point to eat the whole can of custard .
- 2. If custard begins to steam heavily , stir it , off the heat , a moment before returning it to stove top .
- 3. I recommend giving the custard time ( overnight ) to develop its heady flavour . It 's well worth the wait .
- 4. Apple pie and custard would be nice .
- 5. And when subjects smelled a stronger custard aroma , they took smaller samples than when the scent was weaker or imperceptible .