What is "custard"

Usage examples of "custard".

Not till it had been suggested to him that he must at heart be a cowardy cowardy custard had he been moved to take a hand in the enterprise.

Thither the extremely large wains bring foison of the fields, flaskets of cauliflowers, floats of spinach, pineapple chunks, Rangoon beans, strikes of tomatoes, drums of figs, drills of Swedes, spherical potatoes and tallies of iridescent kale, York and Savoy, and trays of onions, pearls of the earth, and punnets of mushrooms and custard marrows and fat vetches and bere and rape and red green yellow brown russet sweet big bitter ripe pomellated apples and chips of strawberries and sieves of gooseberries, pulpy and pelurious, and strawberries fit for princes and raspberries from their canes.

He pointed to a bright yellow pudding, so rich it looked like custard.

He sold pastries in the Italian Market, content, it seemed, to bake cannoli shells and mix the ricotta custard and sprinkle the filled shells with freshly ground cinnamon until he died.

Clear soup, sashimi, a dozen kinds of sushi, tempura vegetables, chicken teriyaki, steamed rice, sukiyaki with more kinds of vegetables than Kirk had been able to identify, shrimp custard, a fabulous lemon-soy tofu salad--he let his mind dwell on each dish, savoring the details of aroma and texture and flavor.

Boone plunged a finger into his tiramisu and scooped up a dollop of the coffee-flavored custard before kneeling before Tania.

He dropped his quizzing glass, picked up his spoon again, and addressed his attention to his custard.

The nicest tit-bits of the choicest dishes--the middle slices of the fish, the breast of the young ducks, and the wings of the chickens, the mealiest potatoes, the juiciest tomatoes, the tenderest roasting ear, the most delicate custard, and freshest fruit always for his reverence!

And I took two more Clementines and two tins of baked beans and a packet of custard creams from the cupboard and I put them in my bag as well, because I could open them with the can opener or my Swiss Army knife.

There were little sucking pigs in crisp suits of golden crackling, barons of beef running with their own rich juices set around with steaming ramparts of roasted potatoes, heaps of tender young pullets and pigeons and ducks and fat geese, five different types of fresh fish from the Atlantic, cooked five different ways, fragrant with the curries and spices of Java and Kandy and Further India, tall pyramids of the huge claw less crimson lobsters that abounded in this southern ocean, a vast array of fruits and succulent vegetables from the Company gardens, and sherbets and custards and sugar dumplings and cakes and trifles and confitures and every sweet delight that the slave chefs in the kitchens could conceive.

When he comes for dinner, it is I who ask Maude to stew guavas for him, and to make a custard to go with it.

These are a few of the things used at the banquet: three hundred quarters of wheat, three hundred tuns of ale, one hundred and four tuns of wine, eighty oxen, three thousand geese, two thousand pigs,--four thousand conies, four thousand heronshaws, four thousand venison pasties cold and five hundred hot, four thousand cold tarts, four thousand cold custards, eight seals, four porpoises, and so on.

Desserts included a selections of cheeses, honeycakes, custards with raisin sauce, poached fruit, and nuts.

She further said she would make a few custards, and stew some pippins, so that they would be cold by the evening.

Cutlery, cracked plates and chipped tin cups were laid out, together with a pitcher of cool water, a cut of crusty wheaten bread on the cutting board, and the banal offering of plates of fat back, taters, and greens and at rare times a deep dish of custard pudding.