Custard is an assortment of culinary arrangements dependent on improved milk, cheddar, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and once in a while likewise flour, corn starch, or gelatin. Contingent upon the formula, custard might change in consistency from a meager pouring sauce to the thick cake cream) used to fill éclairs. The most well-known custards are utilized in custard pastries or pastry sauces and normally incorporate sugar and vanilla; be that as it may, exquisite custards are likewise found.

Custard is generally cooked in a twofold heater (bain-marie), or warmed tenderly in a pan on an oven, however custard can likewise be steamed, prepared in the stove with or without a water shower, or even cooked in a strain cooker. A water shower eases back heat move and makes it simpler to eliminate the custard from the broiler before it sours. Adding a modest quantity of cornflour to the egg-sugar blend balances out the subsequent custard, permitting it to be cooked in a solitary skillet just as in a twofold kettle. A sous-vide water shower might be utilized to unequivocally control temperature.