Too much heat will make the custard curdle.
Too much heat will curdle the custard.
Recent Examples on the WebCohn taught him well, and celebrity only further curdled him.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 May 2024 Even the trailer for Oz Perkins’ horror feature curdles the blood.—Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 May 2024 Past loyalty has now curdled into deep distrust of Russia among the country’s main political parties over the war in Ukraine.—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 1 May 2024 The glossy Ayrshire cows are milked and the milk curdled into the farm’s award-winning cheddar cheese.—Jessica Rawnsley, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2024 Things had started off promisingly in the late spring but curdled by the end of the summer.—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024 At the center is Lellouche’s unflinching, bursting-at-the-seams portrayal of an aggrieved man curdled by ambition, François transformed by his unearned bump in status into a callous collaborator.—Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024 Paro successfully captivated the woman in the home where Wright did his field work, but only a human caregiver recognized that her reliance on it had curdled into something self-destructive.—Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024 Image But many others are stepping down as a 15-year winning streak that reaped billions in profit for the industry has recently curdled into a downturn.—Erin Griffith, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
metathetic variant of cruddle, crudle, frequentative of crud entry 2
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