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

Example Sentences

Vege-butter is a vegetable butter, made from the oil which is extracted from cocoanuts and clarified.

From Dr. Allinson's cookery book Comprising many valuable vegetarian recipes by Allinson, T. R. (Thomas Richard)

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 Mill, Mrs. (Jean Oliver)

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 Hoodless, Adelaide

If vegetable butter is used, 3 ozs. will do, as it contains much less water.

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