vegetable butter

American  

noun

1. any of various fixed vegetable fats resembling butter in consistency, as cocoa butter.

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vegetable butter British  

noun

1. any of a group of vegetable fats having the consistency of butter

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Etymology

Origin of vegetable butter

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

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vegetable butter

Allow 1 egg, 1 small tomato, 1/4 oz. butter or vegetable butter, to each person.

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mrs. (Jean Oliver) Mill

In this region are mines of lead, copper, gold, and iron, a rich soil, adapted to cotton, rice, indigo, sugar, coffee, and vegetable butter, with very cheap labor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

The animal fats are more nutritive than the vegetable, butter and cream heading the list.

From Public School Domestic Science by Adelaide Hoodless

To prepare, take amount of flour required, and allow 1 or 2 ozs. vegetable butter or nut oil to the lb.

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mrs. (Jean Oliver) Mill

Among them were several shea-trees, from which vegetable butter is prepared; the fruit greatly resembling a large olive.

From Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures by Edouard Riou

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