Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
CUSTARD
custard
(noun) sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Custard (plural Custards)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Custard is the 21092nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1245 individuals. Custard is most common among White (61.69%) and Black/African American (29.64%) individuals.
Etymology
Noun
custard (countable and uncountable, plural custards)
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, or eaten as a stand-alone dessert.
Holonyms
• trifle
Source: Wiktionary
Cus"tard (ks"trd), n. Etym: [Prob. the same word as OE. crustade, crustate, a pie made with a crust, fr. L. crustatus covered with a crust, p. p. of crustare, fr. crusta crust; cf. OF. croustade pasty, It. crostata, or F. coutarde. See Crust, and cf. Crustated.]
Definition: A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled. Custard apple (Bot.), a low tree or shrub of tropical America, including several species of Anona (A. squamosa, reticulata, etc.), having a roundish or ovate fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp.
– Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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