1. 1凝乳(牛奶變酸或加酸後結成的厚塊。lemon curd 是另一回事,指檸檬醬/檸檬凝乳,不是酸奶)

    Curd is the thick, soft stuff that forms in milk when the milk goes sour or when you add something acid. The thin watery part left behind is whey. Cheese begins as curd. Cooks also stretched the word: British “lemon curd” is a thick sweet spread of lemon, sugar, butter and egg — not sour milk, only thick and spoonable like curd. “Bean curd” is an older English name for . So the core picture is the thick part of milk, and then the kitchen borrowed the feel of the word. It is a , kitchen word, not a fancy one. As a verb, to curd milk is to make it form curds, though “curdle” is the everyday verb.

組成From Middle English curd, a metathetic variant of crud, crudde (“coagulated substance”). Doublet of crud.

同家族的字

  • crudthe same old word with the sounds swapped; crud later became slang for dirt or rubbish
  • curdlewhen milk curdles, it turns into curd

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Curdname

  • 1

    A surname.

curdnoun/kɜː(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    The coagulated part of any liquid.

    • Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Eating of curds and whey; There came a little spider, Who sat down beside her, And frighted Miss Muffet away.
  • 2

    The coagulated part of any liquid.

  • 3

    The coagulated part of any liquid.

  • 4

    The edible flower head of certain brassicaceous plants.

    • Broccoli should not be allowed to remain till the compactness of the head is broken, but should always be cut while the 'curd,' as the flowering mass is termed, is entire
    • This beautiful vegetable [Romanesco broccoli] looks rather like a green cauliflower designed by a mathematician and has lime-green 'spiralled' curds. The curds are nutty and tasty, and romanesco is worth growing just for its good looks. You can use romanesco in the same ways that you would normally use cauliflower but the flavour is sweeter and they look far more impressive. I try to leave them in large pieces when serving them because they're so beautiful.

curdverb/kɜː(ɹ)d/

  • 1

    To form curd; to curdle.

  • 2

    To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.

    • Does it curd thy blood To say I am thy mother?

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。