Difference between revisions of "Butter"

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-'''Butter''' is churned [[cream]] of [[milk]]. An unctuous (usually) yellow solid [[fat]], often spread on [[bread]] or used in the production of [[cake]]s, [[biscuit]]s and [[pastry|pastries]].  '''Oleomargarine''' ('''margarine''') is a butter substitute made from vegetable oils.
-[[File:Oleo1880-Puck-March31.jpg|thumb|400px|Praising pure butter and denouncing oleomargarine; ''Puck'' magazine cartoon by Opper, March 31, 1880]]
-Until recently dairy farmers denounced oleomargarine as an inferior chemical substitute for butter. It is actually just as nutritious, and a lot cheaper.  One tactic was a law that said maragraine could not be colored yellow, so it came out looking like lard.
-[[Category:Dairy products]]

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