Custard vs Vanilla - What's the difference?
custard | vanilla |
(uncountable) A type of sauce made from milk and eggs (and usually sugar, and sometimes vanilla or other flavourings) and thickened by heat, served hot poured over desserts, as a filling for some pies and cakes, or cold and solidified; also used as a base for some savoury dishes, such as quiches.
(countable) Any particular variety of custard.
(label) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially ), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
(label) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
(label) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
(label) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
(label) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
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Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
(label) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
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Plain; conventional; unimaginative.