cacao butter

noun

First recorded in 1545–55

It is called cacao-butter, and is used by the natives for burns and sores and cutaneous diseases.

For tablets that are not to be kept for any length of time, cacao butter is preferable, as it melts readily and is digestible.

Thus there was plenty of cacao butter available at a time when other fats were scarce.

It practically always contains sugar and added cacao butter, and is generally prepared in moulded form.

Cacao butter runs hot from the presses as an amber-coloured oil, and after nitration, sets to a pale golden yellow wax-like fat.

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