(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.
Surd
Definition:
(a.) Net having the sense of hearing; deaf.
(a.) Unheard.
(a.) Involving surds; not capable of being expressed in rational numbers; radical; irrational; as, a surd expression or quantity; a surd number.
(a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180.
(n.) A quantity which can not be expressed by rational numbers; thus, Ã2 is a surd.