Other forms: custards
Custard is a thick yellow sauce of eggs, milk and sugar. Pour the custard, custard and crumble, lumpy custard.
Real custard thickens with egg and curdles if boiled, which is why it is made over a low heat and never rushed. Powdered custard was invented for a family who could not eat eggs and became the British standard. The word came from a pastry crust.
1nouncustardA thick sauce of eggs, milk and sugar.
“We had apple pie with hot custard for pudding.”
custard is a sauce.
An alteration of crustade, an open pie, from croustade, from Latin crusta, a crust. The filling took the name of the crust.
Alteration of croustade.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA