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Custard, Custard

Most commonly, custard refers to a dessert or dessert sauce, but custard bases are also used for quiches and other savoury foods. As a dessert, it is made from a combination of milk or cream, egg yolks, sugar, and vanilla.

Cooking until it is set without cooking it so much that it curdles is a delicate operation, because only 3-5C (5-10F) separate the two. A water bath slows heat transfer and makes it easier to remove the custard from the oven before it curdles. Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking , 1984, ISBN 0-684-18132-0, p. 71 Depending on how much egg or thickener is used, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crme anglaise), to a thick blancmange like that used for vanilla slice or the pastry cream used to fill clair.

Recipes for custards baked in pastry (custard tarts) appear, under titles such as Crustardes of flessh and Crustade , in The Forme of Cury Hieatt, Constance, and Sharon Butler.

Meanwhile, recipes for stirred custards cooked in pots appear in the same Harleian MSS as Creme Boylede and Creme boiled.

Chawanmushi is a Japanese savory custard, cooked and served in a small bowl or on a saucer.

Karla Longre, Sharie Beaver, Paul Buck, Joseph E. Nowrey, "Viscous Behavior of Custard Systems", Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 14 :6:653 (1966) [1] A suspension of uncooked imitation custard powder or starch mixed with water in the right proportions has the opposite rheological property: it is negative thixotropic, or dilatant, which is to say that it becomes more viscous when under pressure. It is often used in science demonstrations of non-Newtonian liquids: see Oobleck. The British popular-science program Science Abuse demonstrated dilatancy dramatically by filling a swimming pool with this mixture and having presenter Jon Tickle walk across it Jon Tickle walks on custard (YouTube) ; this was called "walking on custard." A similar exhibition was performed on the Discovery Channel series MythBusters, in which co-host Adam Savage traversed a tank filled with water and cornstarch.

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