What is custard, how is it produced?!
What is custard, how is it produced?
what constitutes custard and what are the ingredients
Answers:
Custard is a range of preparations based on milk and eggs, thickened with heat. Most commonly, it 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 flavourings such as vanilla. Sometimes flour, corn starch, or gelatin are also added. In French cookery, custard―called simply "crème" or more precisely "crème moulée"―is never thickened in this way: when starch is added, it is pastry cream crème patissière; when gelatin is added, it is crème anglaise collée.
Depending on how much egg or thickener is used, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise), to a thick blancmange like that used for vanilla slice or the pastry cream used to fill éclairs.
Custard is usually cooked in a double boiler (bain-marie) or heated very gently on the stove in a saucepan, though custard can also be steamed, baked in the oven with or without a hot water bath, or even cooked in a pressure cooker. The trick to getting custard instead of sweetened eggs is to add heated milk to the eggs, not to add eggs directly into the pan on the stove. Cooking until it is set without cooking it so much that it curdles is a delicate operation, because only 5-10°F (3-5°C) separate the two. A water bath slows heat transfer and makes it easier to remove the custard from the oven before it curdles
and here are a lots of different custard recipes:
http://www.mamastable.com/links/custard....
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Hello. What a good question.My dictionary says it is a preparation of Cornflour, and made with milk and eggs, and usually sweetened.We make it with sweetener, as my wife is a diabetic.It's still yummy.
sugar eggs milk
add some vanilla and coconut to make it really nice
Custard is produced by heating egg yolks, milk and sugar. Almost any desert containing these ingredients might be considered to be a custard. The Spanish desert Flan would be considered to be a custard. Pumpkin pie generally contains these ingredients in addition to pumpkin, and is often referred to as pumpkin custard. Cheesecake could also be considered to be a sort of custard. Custard deserts are often baked in the oven. Custards may also be made by stirring a milk/sugar/egg-yolk mixture on the stove, usually over a double boiler. The mixture can also contain part cream rather than just milk. Cooking a custard on the stove top until it is thick enough to coat a spoon well is the first step in making a frozen custard, French or Russian style ice cream. Thickening agents (such as corn or tapioca starch) can also be added to a custard to make a desert pudding or pastry filling.