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the word custard (crème or more precisely crème moulée, [kʁɛm mule]) refers only to an egg-thickened custard.
This misstates French culinary terminology. In French sources, *crème moulée* is a specific preparation derived from *crème anglaise*, not the general French term for 'custard,' and French *crèmes* also include starch-thickened preparations such as *crème pâtissière*.
Full reasoning
Authoritative French reference works do not use crème moulée as the general French equivalent of all custard.
- Larousse defines crème as a preparation based on eggs, milk, and sugar, then says: "La crème anglaise constitue une crème de base ... cuite au bain-marie, elle devient crème moulée"—that is, crème moulée is a specific form made from crème anglaise, not the generic name for custard in French cuisine.
- The same Larousse entry also notes that crème pâtissière is another French crème and that it contains beurre et farine (butter and flour), so French culinary usage clearly includes starch-thickened crèmes as well.
- The Office québécois de la langue française likewise explains that crème plus a modifier is used in cuisine for many preparations, and says crème moulée is often made today from a powdered dessert preparation plus milk. That directly undercuts the claim that crème moulée refers only to an egg-thickened custard.
So the sentence is inaccurate in two ways: it treats crème moulée as the more precise French term for custard generally, and it says the term refers only to egg-thickened custard, even though French culinary sources describe broader usage and include starch-thickened crèmes such as crème pâtissière.
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- crème bas latin crama - LAROUSSE
La crème anglaise constitue une crème de base ... cuite au bain-marie, elle devient crème moulée ... La crème pâtissière, additionnée de beurre et de farine, est utilisée pour fourrer les gâteaux.
- crème moulée | GDT
La crème moulée est confectionnée fréquemment ... à partir d'une préparation pour entremets sous forme de poudre ... Le mot crème suivi d'un déterminatif est employé au sens de préparation culinaire ... donné, en cuisine, à nombre de préparations.