(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.
Junket
Definition:
(n.) A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
(n.) A feast; an entertainment.
(v. i.) To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
(v. t.) To give entertainment to; to feast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indeed it is hard to see what this junket is really about, other than to have a thoroughly good time.
(2) It was slightly unfair of me because I already disliked him – the only junket I've ever done was with him, and he kept everyone waiting for 10 hours, then turned up for about one minute.
(3) He dined with developers in private, at a huge property junket in Cannes called Mipim, and publicly announced his grand bargain with capital: they should be allowed to build as big as they wanted, as long as he could take a tithe of the proceeds to spend on such things as affordable housing.
(4) AstraZeneca, however, did not sponsor any doctors to go to conferences in 2012, a major departure for a pharmaceutical company, because the bad publicity surrounding drug company junkets made it rethink its policy.
(5) Ratner's initial gaffe came during a junket for his new film Tower Heist last week.
(6) Tarantino himself seemed irritated when questioned on the issue of whether Hollywood contributes to gun violence at a junket for his new film on Saturday in New York.
(7) The pair are due in the city this week for a press junket and tonight’s (Tuesday’s) Italian premiere of Noah.
(8) The junkets and lunches are now largely in the past, says the bond man.
(9) The Queensland premier and mayors are on a dangerous junket to promote a damaging project.
(10) It’s now packed at weekends – but retains its quirky, homely feel – with people converging from far and wide for pre-ordered paella, and the heartily recommended house speciality, cuajadera , a saffron-rich seafood stew (intriguingly, erroneously translated as “junket of sandpiper” on the menu).
(11) He is likely getting fed up with the other role that comes with the Bond territory – doing endless interviews, press junkets and promotions, a Groundhog Day of feigned enthusiasm, gushing superlatives and identical answers to identical questions.
(12) We arrived at this ghastly junket, was given our 15-minute slot, which is tricky because on Front Row we run eight or nine minutes, so you've got to hit the ground running.
(13) Almodóvar cancelled a press junket on Wednesday for his newest film Julieta after facing scrutiny over his financial arrangements.
(14) A round halfway through I'm Still Here , the 2010 documentary chronicling Joaquin Phoenix 's short-lived rap career and apparent retirement from acting, he undertakes a shambolic press junket, snapping when a journalist asks if it's all a hoax.
(15) The cables, which first surfaced with the Wikileaks disclosures two years ago, described a series of separate public relations strategies, unrolled at dozens of press junkets and biotech conferences, aimed at convincing scientists, media, industry, farmers, elected officials and others of the safety and benefits of GM products.
(16) They have to do these junkets all the time and any excitement faded when they made their first trip to the Cement Manufacturers Trade Expo in Brazil.
(17) British ministers on Olympic partnership junkets had "to raise the question of human rights" at every meeting.
(18) He also allegedly hosted lavish junkets for these African officials at which he handed out almost $400,000 in cash.
(19) He seems in later life to have found some sort of serenity, underpinned by the Stoic philosophy which, superbly stated, ends Satire X : Still, if you must pray for something, if at every shrine you offer The entrails and holy chitterlings of a white piglet Then ask for a healthy mind in a healthy body, Demand a valiant heart for which death holds no terrors, That reckons length of life as the least among the gifts Of nature, that's strong to endure every kind of sorrow, That's anger free, lusts for nothing, and prefers The sorrows and labours of Hercules to all Sardanapulus' downy cushions and women and junketings.
(20) Dismissing Rio+20 and other mega-conferences as mere junkets was a "totally irresponsible way of thinking" he said.