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Custard vs Vanilla - What's the difference?

custard | vanilla |

As a noun custard

is (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.

As a proper noun vanilla is

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custard

Noun

  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * confectioner's custard * custard apple * custard arm * custard brains * custard Christian * custard-chucker * custard coffin * custard cream * custard cup * custard-cups * custard glass * custard pie * custard powder * custard tart * custard winds * custardy * egg custard * frozen custard * fruit custard * love custard * turn to custard

    See also

    * bavarois * * * cream puff * floating islands * trifle * panna cotta, pannacotta * vanilla slice * vla * zabaglione

    vanilla

    Noun

  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * Cuban vanilla * vanilla grass

    Synonyms

    * (bean) vanilla bean * (extract) vanilla extract * (artificial extract) imitation vanilla

    Adjective

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  • Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
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  • Plain; conventional; unimaginative.
  • Synonyms

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