Custard vs. Mustard

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.

Mustardnoun

A plant of certain species of the genus Brassica, or of related genera (especially Sinapis alba, in the family Brassicaceae, with yellow flowers, and linear seed pods.

Mustardnoun

Powder or paste made from seeds of the mustard plant, and used as a condiment or a spice.

Mustardnoun

The leaves of the mustard plant, used as a salad.

Mustardnoun

Dark yellow colour, the colour of mustard.

Mustardnoun

The tomalley of a crab, which resembles the condiment.

Mustardadjective

Of a dark yellow colour.

Mustardnoun

The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (Brassica alba), black mustard (Brassica Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (Brassica Sinapistrum).

Mustardnoun

A powder or a paste made from the seeds of black or white mustard, used as a condiment and a rubefacient. Taken internally it is stimulant and diuretic, and in large doses is emetic.

Mustardnoun

any of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica

Mustardnoun

pungent powder or paste prepared from ground mustard seeds

Mustardnoun

leaves eaten as cooked greens

Mustardnoun

a hot-tasting yellow or brown paste made from the crushed seeds of certain plants, typically eaten with meat or used as a cooking ingredient

Mustardnoun

the yellow-flowered Eurasian plant of the cabbage family whose seeds are used to make mustard.

Mustardnoun

used in names of related plants, only some of which are used to produce mustard for the table, e.g. hedge mustard.

Mustardnoun

a brownish yellow colour