In this section I’ll use custard to mean a dish prepared and served in the same container, often baked and therefore unstirred, so that it sets into a solid gel. The custard family includes savory quiches and timbales as well as sweet flans, crèmes caramels, pots de crème, crèmes brûlées, and cheesecakes. Creams, by contrast, are auxiliary preparations, made from essentially the same mix as custards but stirred continuously during stovetop cooking to produce a thickened but malleable, even pourable mass. Pastry cooks in particular use crème anglaise (so-called “custardcream”), pastry cream (crème pâtissière), and their relatives to coat or fill or underlie a great variety of baked sweets.