custard
A type of sauce made from milk and eggs and thickened by heat, served hot poured over…A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert; egg custard.
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» I had some custard pudding for an afternoon snack.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(countable, uncountable)A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert; egg custard.
(broadly, countable, uncountable)A similar sauce made from milk and cornflour or custard powder (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat.
Vanillesoße, Pudding, Creme
заварно́й кремzavarnój krem, ка́стардkástard
заварни́й кремzavarnýj krem
- sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen
Examples
12 sentencesI had some custard pudding for an afternoon snack.
Mary likes chocolate pudding with custard.
deMaria isst gern Schokoladenpudding mit Vanillesoße. — Melang
Have you ever eaten a custard pizza?
The baker filled the buns with custard.
There's mint custard in the canteen today.
deIn der Kantine gibt es heute Pfefferminzpudding. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
Alteration of croustade.Alteration of croustade.
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Forms
plural: custardsWord family
25 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.