Ingredient

Custard

Custard can be made with milk, cheese, cream, eggs or egg yolks. It may also include flour, corn starch, gelatin, sugar or vanilla. Cooks bake or steam custard, or use it as a garnish.

Egg
Dairy
Allergen: egg
Allergen: milk

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Cooked most in: Europe, The Americas
Top country: France
Dishes: 4 in the catalogue

Photo: Interiot · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use custard

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake
Garnish
Steam

Made from

milk
cheese
cream
egg
egg yolk
flour (sometimes)
corn starch (sometimes)
gelatin (sometimes)
sugar (sometimes)
vanilla (sometimes)

Cooking with it

A fully cooked custard should generally stay at or below 80 °C; it starts to set at 70 °C. A water bath slows heating and helps prevent curdling in the oven. Adding a little cornstarch to the egg and sugar mixture stabilizes the custard.

Around the world

Where custard is cooked

4 dishes in the catalogue use custard. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list custard among their ingredients.

Origins

The 1300s · United Kingdom
Custard recipes appeared in an English collection in the 14th century.

On the table

Dishes made with custard

3 of the 4 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Bean pie
United States
Napoleon cake
France
Pantxineta

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include custard.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: custard in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: Contains: eggs, milk
Animal origin: From: egg, dairy

Family

Related forms

Kinds: pastry cream

Around the world

What custard is called

Names in 58 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
crema
French
costarde · coustarde · custard
Italian
crema
Portuguese
creme
German
Creme · Eiercreme
Dutch
custard
Greek
κάσταρντ
Turkish
koyu krema
Russian
заварной крем
Polish
Custard · Krem angielski · Sos angielski
Arabic
كَستَرد
Persian
کاستارد

Show all 58 languages

Afrikaans
Vla
Albanian
krem karamel
Armenian
Քաստարդ
Asturian
crema
Bangla
কাস্টার্ড
Basque
krema
Belarusian
Заварны крэм
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
заварны крэм
Brazilian Portuguese
creme
Bulgarian
яйчен крем
Cantonese
奶黃 · 吉士
Catalan
crema · Custard
Chinese
奶黃 · 奶黃餡 · 蛋醬 · 奶皇
Czech
žloutkový krém
Danish
vaniljecreme · vaniljesauce
Egyptian Arabic
كسترد · kastard
Esperanto
kustardo
Finnish
custard · maitokiisseli · munakastike · vaniljakastike
Galician
crema
Hebrew
חביצה
Hindi
कस्टर्ड
Hungarian
sodó · puding
Ido
Kustardo
Indonesian
Custard
Irish
custard · breachtán · ubhagán
Japanese
カスタード
Javanese
Custard
Kannada
ಕಸ್ಟರ್ಡ್
Kazakh
Кастэрд
Korean
커스터드 · 슈크림
Latvian
olu krēms
Macedonian
Крем
Malay
kastard
Malayalam
കസ്റ്റാർഡ്
Māori
kahetete · kātete
Nepali
कस्टर्ड
Norwegian Bokmål
vaniljesaus
Norwegian Nynorsk
vaniljesaus
Odia
କଷ୍ଟାର୍ଡ
Punjabi
ਕਸਟਰਡ
Romanian
cremă
Simplified Chinese
奶黄
Slovenian
jajčna krema
Swedish
custard
Traditional Chinese
奶黃
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
奶黃
Ukrainian
заварний крем · кустард · кастард
Vietnamese
sữa trứng · kem sữa trứng
Welsh
Cwstard
Western Panjabi
کسٹرڈ
Wu Chinese
奶黄

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q625825

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