Can Anyone tell me Who Invented the food called CUSTARD?and when?and where does the word CUSTARD come from?

Question

Custard is a VERY Popular sweet Yellow coloured food which is often poured over Apple pie's,christmas pudding Hot pudding's etc.

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard

Answer 2

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 pâtissière; 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.[1]

Custard is an important part of dessert recipes from many countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Australia and Argentina.

Instant and ready-made 'custards' are also marketed, though they are not true custards if they are not thickened with egg. See Bird's Custard, for instance. In the United Kingdom, school custard is a common name for the 'custard' (usually made from cornflour) served for pudding at schools. Its poor quality and thick consistency are often the source of jokes.

Answer 3

Custard, the original is a French dish. Milk is heated and sugar is added to taste, then egg yolks are whisked in , gradually thickening the mixture. Vanilla is used to flavour.

I don't know how the popular yellow stuff came to such prominence, but it bears little resemblance to fresh custard , which is a delicate and light topping...

Love them both though...

Answer 4

The word 'custard' is derived from a Provençal word, 'croustade'.

Answer 5

I did have a little chuckle when in Rome when I saw a dessert that contained Créme Anglais.

The waiter also had a chuckle when I told him that we call it custard....how strange.

Answer 6

i invented custard , do u have any problem

Answer 7

at our school we had chocolate custard which we aptly named turd of cus ...you had to see it to believe it !!

Answer 8

who cares just eat the stuff.