(n.) A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Staphylococcus strain was inoculated on the top and cut surfaces of freshly baked Southern custard pies which were then packaged in a pasteboard carton and held at 30 C. Daily plate counts of surface sections 0.3 inch (0.76 cm) in thickness were made.
(2) 5 Dollop the blackcurrant jam all over the surface of the cooked custard and spread gently to level it.
(3) Bonus recipe: stress-free custard I was taught how to make this by Claire Ptak, who runs Violet Cakes in east London.
(4) And he would suggest having it as a pudding, in winter, with a dollop of custard.
(5) Try the tartelette de chocolate e avelã (hazelnut and chocolate tart, £2), or the classic Portuguese pastel de nata (custard tart, same price).
(6) Boston cream doughnuts Thick vanilla custard and a chocolate glaze: these are the foundations of the Boston Cream pie.
(7) For the custard 4 egg yolks 400ml double cream 60g caster sugar 1 tbsp cornflour 1 tsp vanilla essence (or ½ vanilla pod, split) 1 Whisk the egg yolks for a minute in a largish heat-proof bowl (you need to be able to whisk the hot cream in later without worrying about it spilling over.)
(8) Another series on the Edwardian larder will examine products such as Marmite and Bird's custard powder, along with the social changes that created a need for them.
(9) Chocolate stout pudding (above) Admittedly, with summer creeping in and temperatures rising, it's hardly pudding season.But I'm a firm believer in the restorative powers of stodge, and I'd hate for the pleasures of pudding – steamed sponges, sticky toffee, spotted dick and custard – to be out of bounds for part of the year.
(10) Take the train to Lisbon for custard tarts, rickety trams and the fantastic Oceanarium ( oceanario.pt ).
(11) Many of the present methods of manufacture, distribution and storage allow organisms present in the custard at manufacture the opportunity to multiply and possibly reach numbers which present a risk of food poisoning.
(12) 6 Pour the custard mix into the pastry case, then grate the nutmeg on top (do not use ready-ground nutmeg).
(13) (It belonged to Iain Watters , and he presented his ruined pudding to the judges from the murky depths of a fliptop bin, whither he had cast it in a fury; this event was even more scandalous than the custard theft of 2013 – don’t ask.)
(14) That was the week when the Bake Off contestants were called on to make dainty biscuits and elaborate gingerbread concoctions, following previous showdowns over who could make the fluffiest muffins and the creamiest custard tarts.
(15) Some spices are at the heart of baking: cinnamon can transform the fortunes of even the saddest apple pie, while nutmeg turns plain custard into gold.
(16) For this gluten-free version, instead of the usual custard I have incorporated a couple of English favourites – Earl Grey tea and marmalade – to create this moist, sticky and citrussy bake.
(17) The company bought brands such as Bird's Custard and Angel Delight from the US giant Kraft Foods in December.
(18) Of course it is the hyperbolic silliness – the make-or-break trifle sponge, custard thefts, and prolonged ruminations over "The Crumb" – that makes The Great British Bake Off so lovable.
(19) The custard base and rhubarb can cook at the same time.
(20) Slowly add the hot cream mix to the yolks and whisk for a minute to form a thin custard.
Liqueur
Definition:
(n.) An aromatic alcoholic cordial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Imported sweets and liqueurs were homogenized and extracted with ethyl acetate.
(2) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
(3) The daily diet comprised local hams and Morteau sausage, local morels, honey beer, the fortified Macvin du Jura wine, and the extraordinary liqueur de sapin, an aperitif produced in nearby Pontarlier whose distinctive flavour comes from pine-shoot tips.
(4) P. Diddy, aka Sean Combs, also owns a clothing range, called Sean John, as well as Ciroc liqueur, Blue Flame marketing agency and Revolt TV network.
(5) Hallucinations induced by absinthe, the popular liqueur of the period, may explain particular canvases but not the majority of 'high yellow' paintings.
(6) The food's good, and on a cold morning-after-the-night-before you can easily justify popping in to sup an ocho coco – a mix of tequila, coconut liqueur, passionfruit, coriander, ginger and lime to help the hangover.
(7) Higher concentrations were found in the other alcoholic beverages examined, which included whisky, fruit brandy, liqueur, wine, sherry and port.
(8) And instead of the Alpine offering of vin chaud, tartiflette and herbal liqueur génépi , it serves Kymyz (also called kumis , a bitter, alcoholic concoction made of horse’s milk) and beşbarmaq (horse sausage served with noodles).
(9) As she coos "Yoncé all on his mouth like liqueur", flashing paparazzi bulbs take us into the second section, which is basically about having sex in the back of a limo ("He Monica Lewinskyed all on my gown").
(10) Shops are crammed with lemon products: try the jams and liqueurs from Maison Herbin (2 rue du Vieux Collège), lemon-infused olive oil from Oliviers & Co , and lemon biscuits from La Cure Gourmande , both on rue Saint-Michel.
(11) There are also implications for the illness of Vincent van Gogh and the once popular, but now banned liqueur, called absinthe.
(12) Caramel Colour II is widely used in ice creams and liqueurs; however, it represents less than 1% of total caramel colour manufacture.
(13) Recovery of yeasts from cream liqueurs and egg-based beverages was also good but it was not possible to filter drinks containing orange juice, even through filters with nominal pore sizes of 2 to 10 micron.
(14) The dark chocolate torte, one of the standout puddings, is made with cream liqueur from a distillery in the Brecon Beacons.
(15) Do this every so often for the next four weeks and you should have a lovely deep purple liqueur in under a month.
(16) A sensitive and specific method based on gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for the quantitative determination of ethyl carbamate in table wines, fortified wines (such as ports and sherries), distilled spirits, brandies and liqueurs has been developed.
(17) Its arts of hedonism are reaching unprecedented levels: its restaurants get better or at least more ambitious and its bars offer cocktails previously unknown to man (coconut seviche, for example, where, as its makers put it, “coconut gin is swizzled through crushed ice with yuzu, passion fruit and a dark chocolate liqueur, and served long with an accompanying ‘shot’ of tuna seviche with a tamarind ponzu”).
(18) Fortunately the dog seems miraculously OK after his chocolate liqueur (it was probably carob).
(19) Whisk the two yolks and the sugar together until thick and pale, then fold in the remaining liqueur and the mascarpone.
(20) The balcony overlooking the French Riviera, fine wines and liqueurs on tap, a chance to finally start writing that metatextual novella... he's not coming back, is he?