vegetable butter

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noun

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

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Origin of vegetable butter

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby vegetable butter

Vega Baja, vegan, vegeburger, Vegemite, vegetable, vegetable butter, vegetable cellar, vegetable ivory, vegetable kingdom, vegetable marrow, vegetable oil

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How to use vegetable butter in a sentence

In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy.
Make ‘The Chew’s’ Carla Hall’s Sticky Toffee Pudding|Carla Hall|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Preheat oven to 375°F. Heat the vegetable oil in a large, high-sided cast iron skillet.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole|Carla Hall|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
While the beans are cooling and drying, melt the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.
Make Carla Hall’s Crispy Shallot Green Bean Casserole|Carla Hall|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Butter has always been a healthy part of the diet in almost every culture; butter is a traditional food,” Asprey says.
Bulletproof Coffee and the Case for Butter as a Health Food|DailyBurn|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Now, his new book “The Bulletproof Diet,” claims to offer a weight loss solution that lets you have your butter, and eat it too.
Bulletproof Coffee and the Case for Butter as a Health Food|DailyBurn|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801)|Daniel Defoe
You see, they always butter their chairs so that they won't stick fast when they sit down.
Davy and The Goblin|Charles E. Carryl
The former, in its frozen state, somewhat resembled hard butter.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
Grain merchants and vegetable dealers jostled each other in the streets themselves.
Our Little Korean Cousin|H. Lee M. Pike
Clodd tells us that one cubic inch of rotten stone contains 41 thousand million vegetable skeletons of diatoms.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford

British Dictionary definitions for vegetable butter

vegetable butter

noun

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

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