Crossword clues for margarine
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Margarine \Mar"ga*rine\ (m[aum]r"j[u^]*r[i^]n; m[aum]r`j[u^]*r[=e]n"), n. [F.; see margarin.]
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A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called oleomargarine; artificial butter.
The word margarine shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not.
--Margarine Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 29). Margarin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
butter substitute, 1873, from French margarine (see margarin). Invented 1869 by French scientist Hippolyte Mège-Mouries and made in part from edible fats and oils.\n\nThe "enterprising merchant" of Paris, who sells Margarine as a substitute for Butter, and does not sell his customers by selling it as Butter, and at Butter's value, has very likely found honesty to be the best policy. That policy might perhaps be adopted with advantage by an enterprising British Cheesemonger.
["Punch," Feb. 21, 1874]
Wiktionary
n. A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.
WordNet
n. a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter [syn: margarin, oleo, oleomargarine, marge]
Wikipedia
Margarine ( or ) is an imitation butter spread used for spreading, baking, and cooking. Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès created it in France, in 1869. He was responding to a challenge by Emperor Napoleon III to create a butter substitute for the armed forces and lower classes. It was later named margarine.
Whereas butter is made from the butterfat of milk, modern margarine is made mainly of refined vegetable oil and water, and may also contain milk. In some places in The United States it is colloquially referred to as "oleo", short for oleomargarine.
Margarine, like butter, consists of a water-in-fat emulsion, with tiny droplets of water dispersed uniformly throughout a fat phase in a stable crystalline form. In some jurisdictions margarine must have a minimum fat content of 80% to be labelled as such, the same as butter. Colloquially in the United States, the term margarine is used to describe "non-dairy spreads" like Country Crock, and I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! with varying amounts of fat content.
Margarine can be used for spreading, baking, and cooking. It is also commonly used as an ingredient in other food products, such as pastries, doughnuts and cookies, owing to its versatility.
Usage examples of "margarine".
That was how our neighbors talked, and the beer truck drivers, shipyard workers, Brosen fishermen, the women who worked in the Amada margarine factory, housemaids, marketwomen on Saturday, garbage collectors on Tuesday, they all yapped their words querulously, and even the schoolteachers yapped, though in a more refined way, and the postal and police officials, and on Sunday the pastor in the pulpit.
Otto Prill, a foreman at the Amada margarine factory, celebrated their wedding in the autumn of 1932.
You could get two and a half dozen of them for one gulden, and Kashubian butter cost less than margarine.
And yet I have managed by drumming to search the timber port, with all its driftwood lurching in the bights or caught in the rushes, and, with less difficulty, the launching ways of the Schichau shipyard and the Klawitter shipyard, and the drydocks, the scrap-metal dump, the rancid coconut stores of the margarine factory, and all the hiding places that were ever known to me in those parts.
My father paused with the tub of margarine in one hand and the butter knife in the other, and for an irrational moment I thought he might stab Grandma Mazur.
Saccharine, margarine, repressed memory, fiber and colon cancer, hormone replacement therapy….
Saccharine, margarine, repressed memory, fiber and colon cancer, hormone replacement therapy&the list of dramatic, damaging errors of the consensus goes on and on.
She would have one quick cup with Hoke before returning to the kitchen to fry two eggs, sunny side up, and to toast four slices of Cuban bread that she would slather with margarine.
We did get flour, margarine, lard, dried milk, dried peas and beans, white and brown sugar, pasta, oatmeal, dried fruits and mushrooms, instant potatoes, coffee, tea, instant orange juice, and soup mix.
Moving upwards, he views the shelf of lubricants and creams and lotions: the butter and the margarine, the tub of lard, the mayonnaise, the extra virgin olive oil, the salad dressings and the HP Sauce.
For the main course, instant mashed potatoes with margarine and a stout slice of meatloaf, swimming in diluted cream of mushroom soup.
The pasty margarine tasted as usual like axle grease, but they ate excellent turbot and good leg of lamb.
Carton of low-fat milk, slab of margarine or butter, several containers of yogurt.
They have toast thickly spread with margarine, together with malted milk biscuits and two cups of tea each.
There wasn't much there -- some milk, part of a ham, orange juice, diet soda, apples, oranges, and bananas, six different kinds of margarine from a time some weeks before when he decided to test all the different margarines that were available, some rolls that had been in there several months, and a couple of open cans of pineapple.