Custard vs. Flummery — What's the Difference?

Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin. Depending on the recipe, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise) to the thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) used to fill éclairs.

Flummery is a starch-based, sweet, soft dessert pudding known to have been popular in Britain and Ireland from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. The word has also been used for other semi-set desserts.

A dessert or sweet sauce made with milk and eggs, or milk and a proprietary powder.

Meaningless or deceptive language; humbug.

A dish consisting of milk, eggs, flavoring, and sometimes sugar, boiled or baked until set.

Any of several soft, sweet, bland foods, such as custard.

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; egg custard.

A sweet gelatinous pudding made by straining boiled oatmeal or flour.

A mixture of milk and eggs, sweetened, and baked or boiled.

A soft dessert of stewed, thickened fruit, often mixed with a grain such as rice.

Sweetened mixture of milk and eggs baked or boiled or frozen

A custard; any of several bland, gelatinous foodstuffs, usually made from stewed fruit and thickened with oatmeal, cornstarch or flour.

A slightly tart, jelly-like food of Welsh origin, made from extensively boiling oats, then boiling down the liquid extracted from it.

Empty or meaningless talk, especially when used to flatter.

Pretentious trappings, useless ornaments used to impress.

Deceptive or blustering speech.

An expression of contemptuous disbelief.

A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap.

Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing.

A bland custard or pudding especially of oatmeal

Meaningless ceremonies and flattery