custard

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sweet dessert or sauce made from milk or cream, eggs, and usually sugar, thickened by heating

   She poured warm custard over the apple pie.

2. 2
   noun

   a similar sweet sauce thickened with starch or custard powder rather than eggs

   The school served vanilla custard made with milk and custard powder.

An alteration of Middle English crustade or croustade, a pie with a crust, from Old French crouste ("crust"). The name gradually shifted from the pastry case to its egg-and-milk filling and then to the modern sauce or dessert.

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