What is "custards"

Usage examples of "custards".

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

And I suspect it was not the custards on her tray which so moved his interest.

Conversing about politics, under such a stimulus, would have prov'd animated enough, without reckoning in as well the effects of drink, tobacco, whose smoke one inhales here willy-nilly with every breath, and sugar, to be found at every hand in lucent brown cones great and little, Ic'd Cupcakes by the platter-ful, all manner of punches and flips, pies of the locality, crullers, muffins, and custards, no table that does not hold some sweet memento, for those it matters to, of the cane thickets, the chains, the cruel Sugar-Islands.

The lads, whose flow of saliva has begun to escape the best efforts of their lower lips to contain it, proceed to eat their way from one end of a long trestle table to the other, thro' Hams and Fowl, Custards and Tarts, fried Noodles and Opossum Alamodes, all the while deep in discourse upon the deepest Topicks there are.

There were custards in the refrigerator, but she didn't trust them—custards could conceal drugs.

There were custards in the refrigerator, but she didn't trust them—custards could conceal drugs.

They finished the custards and disposed of the banana leaf wrappings in a street-side waste container.