The phrase "a curd" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a solid mass that forms when milk coagulates, often in the context of cheese-making or cooking.
Example: "After letting the milk sit for a few hours, I noticed that a curd had formed at the top."
Alternatives: "a cheese curd" or "a lump of curd".
Passion fruit makes a beautiful alternative to lemon in a curd.
It brings depth to the pork, warmth to a curd, draws the pudding's many ingredients together, lifts the cake.
Basically, heat a lot of milk, add bacterial cultures and enzymes to thicken it into a curd, drain it, salt it, and let it ferment and age.
Each of these flaws has a range of possible sources, from a curd that is too acidic or too firm to fluctuating storage temperatures to bacterial underperformance.
In East Asia the bean is extensively consumed in the forms of soy milk, a whitish liquid suspension, and tofu, a curd somewhat resembling cottage cheese.
Among these essentials, Dekker grabbed his Culver's gear, a hoodie that identifies him as a "Curd Nerd". The sweatshirt had to come to Washington.
There were other Key lime pies in Key West: one with a near-towering meringue at the Blue Heaven, where some of the island's infamous roosters share space with patrons in the outdoor seating area; and one with a chocolate-lined graham-cracker crust and a curd-like filling at Alice's, the home of Alice Weingarten, perhaps the most inventive of Keys chefs.
If the chick hatches before the mother's return, the father feeds it a curd-like substance composed of 59% protein and 28% lipid, which is produced by a gland in his esophagus.
During the process of pigeon 'lactation', a curd-like substance is regurgitated from the crop to the squab.
A starter culture is added to form a soft curd, a process that takes much longer than using rennet, a substance taken from animals' stomachs.
"Now the recipe is more likely to be a grapefruit curd or a new kind of granola bar than a casserole," she said.
