(n.) The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distinguished from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese.
(n.) The coagulated part of any liquid.
(n.) The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants, as the broccoli and cauliflower.
(v. t.) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
(v. i.) To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whey
Example Sentences:
(1) In respective curds 35.6, 47.1 and 57.7% of Aflatoxin M1 are recovered and 64.4, 52.9 and 42.3% in respective whey.
(2) Cases tended to consume slightly more rice, but less protein-rich foods (i.e., bean curd, meat, eggs) and vegetables than did controls.
(3) It is suggested that this carbohydrate facilitates the adhesion of starter bacteria to the cheese-curd matrix and that during the initial stages of syneresis this serves to prevent their expulsion from the curd with the whey.
(4) When the curd was heated gradually to attain the cooking temperature (50 degrees C), numbers of L. monocytogenes increased by approximately 40 to 45% over those in inoculated milk.
(5) This result was confirmed by radioimmunoassay of dry curd cottage cheese and whey.
(6) The reduced pH of cheese curd, which reaches 4.5 to 5.2, depending on the variety, affects at least the following characteristics of curd and cheese: syneresis (and hence cheese composition), retention of calcium (which affects cheese texture), retention and activity of coagulant (which influences the extent and type of proteolysis during ripening), the growth of contaminating bacteria.
(7) This is a Bakewell tart, but with coconut frangipane and lemon curd instead of the usual sponge and raspberry jam.
(8) These results suggested the binding sites, or DPH-sensitive, or L-type, calcium channels in curde membranes from rat cardiac muscle and whole brain are directly or indirectly modulated by endogenous GTP-binding protein, but not by various endogenous protein kinases in these crude membranes.
(9) Lemon curd Most lemon curd recipes call for at least one whole egg.
(10) The separated milk whey and curd were hydrolyzed by acid or alkali and each lipid extract was subjected to HPLC analysis.
(11) The home remedies tried by mothers were, isabgol husk with curd (30.55%), ghee with tea (28.70%) water boiled with mint leaves (25.92%), local ghutti (22.22%) and unripe mango juice (16.66%).
(12) "Trying to control all the variables – the temperature, the milk, the pH, the time you cut the curds – becomes mindboggling.
(13) Four Holstein male calves each were fitted with a reentrant duodenal cannula and fed a low heat milk replacer with or without an oxalate-NaOH buffer known to prevent curd formation in the abomasum.
(14) Milk containing L. monocytogenes was coagulated with gluconic acid, HCl, or rennet, and cottage cheese curd was prepared.
(15) However, milk coagulated enzymatically and the curd shrinkage was related to salt-dependent acidity.
(16) Most of the curd samples showed a positive phosphatase test, indicating production from raw milk.
(17) 3 Fill the pancake with spoonful of passionfruit curd, spreading it out roughly, and top with a dollop of chocolate mixture.
(18) On the other hand, the mutagen-negative diet was significantly frequent in fresh vegetables, cooked potatoes, cooked carrots, milk, bean curd, devils' tongue and confections.
(19) Fungal species which can cause thread mould defects were also found in the cheese factory environment, on cheesemaking equipment, in air, and in curd and whey, providing a wide range of potential sources of contamination.
(20) The milk products studied were: raw fresh milk, nonfat milk, full fat dried milk "Vitalact 1" and dietetic curds.
Curdle
Definition:
(v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
(v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.
(v. t.) To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.
(v. t.) To congeal or thicken.
Example Sentences:
(1) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
(2) With both kinds of meals, cortisol evolutions were similar though peak values were higher with the curdled milk.
(3) The self-preservation act of leaving is curdled by a sense of desertion for letting the status quo stand.
(4) Page four 10 More blood-curdling clauses about the secrecy of the proceedings.
(5) The biological value of the soya curdle, obtained by the traditional technology, and of the cedar curdle was much lower than that of the initial products.
(6) It was found that significant sanitary failures are present during th whole goat cheese process, although the highest bacteria contamination occurred at the milking, curdling and filling stages.
(7) – wiped out Jack Colback with a blood-curdling tackle which ended his one time team-mate’s afternoon and was rather fortunate not to collect a slightly overdue yellow card.
(8) Preruminant calves bearing indwelling catheters in the hepatic artery, the portal and the hepatic veins were fed with two kinds of diets, a conventional curdled milk diet and a milk diet which was uncurdled in the abomasum.
(9) It has been difficult for Defoe ever since and all the excitement surrounding his signing, which Toronto had trumpeted as “ a bloody big deal ”, has curdled.
(10) The FA’s culture had narrowed and curdled through that decade, which ended in 96 people being unlawfully killed at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final which the governing body itself had commissioned at Hillsborough.
(11) At the end of Black's three-hour presentation, his opposite number at MI6, Mark Allen , commented drily that it all sounded "rather blood-curdling".
(12) Then pour the boiling cream on to the mix, whisking constantly to prevent curdling.
(13) In spontaneously curdled cheese coliform bacteria vanish during the third month of storage.
(14) Self-evidently, this was not Conservatism as anyone had previously understood it – but up until the poll tax saw boldness curdling into hubris, the party and its wider constituency were in almost full support.
(15) But, over a period of months, I was given some blood curdling learned opinions on what might happen to the Guardian – and me personally – if we persisted in our intended course of publishing.
(16) But the joke curdles really badly when the film tries to bring gay characters on screen to back it up.
(17) George Osborne has, however, given an added twist to the downward spiral, both by taking money out of the economy this year and by his blood-curdling warnings that cuts of at least 25% in Whitehall spending will have to be announced in next month's comprehensive spending review in order to tackle Britain's deficit.
(18) In comparison with a conventional curdled milk diet, the intake of uncurdled milk diet did not modify mean portal vein (47 to 49 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) or hepatic arterial (5.6 to 5.7 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) blood flows but did influence nycthemeral variations in portal blood flow rates, especially during the second part of the night.
(19) Lightly beat together the egg and 5 egg yolks, then add them to the mix, a little at a time, in order to prevent curdling.
(20) Some on the left were once drawn to blood-curdling eugenics for breeding away inherited disadvantage.