Custard vs. Pie

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.

Pienoun

A type of pastry that consists of an outer crust and a filling.

Pienoun

Any of various other, non-pastry dishes that maintain the general concept of a shell with a filling.

Pienoun

(Northeastern US) Pizza.

Pienoun

(figuratively) The whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided in parts.

Pienoun

(letterpress) A disorderly mess of spilt type.

Pienoun

(cricket) An especially badly bowled ball.

Pienoun

(pejorative) a gluttonous person.

Pienoun

A pie chart.

Pienoun

(slang) The vulva.

Pienoun

(obsolete) Magpie.

Pienoun

(historical) The smallest unit of currency in South Asia, equivalent to 1/192 of a rupee or 1/12 of an anna.

Pieverb

(transitive) To hit in the face with a pie, either for comic effect or as a means of protest (see also pieing).

Pieverb

(transitive) To go around (a corner) in a guarded manner.

Pieverb

(transitive) (of printing types) To reduce to confusion; to jumble.

Pienoun

An article of food consisting of paste baked with something in it or under it; as, chicken pie; venison pie; mince pie; apple pie; pumpkin pie.

Pienoun

See Camp, n., 5.

Pienoun

A magpie.

Pienoun

The service book.

Pienoun

Type confusedly mixed. See Pi.

Pieverb

See Pi.

Pienoun

dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top

Pienoun

a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages

Pie

A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts (pecan pie), brown sugar (sugar pie), sweetened vegetables (rhubarb pie), or with thicker fillings based on eggs and dairy (as in custard pie and cream pie).