Costard vs. Custard

Costardnoun

(British) A large cooking apple.

Costardnoun

The tree on which large cooking apples grow.

Costardnoun

The human head.

Costardnoun

An apple, large and round like the head.

Costardnoun

The head; - used contemptuously.

Costard

Costard is a comic figure in the play Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare. A country bumpkin, he is arrested in the first scene for flouting the king's proclamation that all men of the court avoid the company of women for three years.

Custardnoun

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.

Custardnoun

A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.

Custardnoun

sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen

Custardnoun

a dessert or sweet sauce made with milk and eggs, or milk and a proprietary powder.

Custard

Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin. Depending on the recipe, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise) to the thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) used to fill éclairs.