margarine
IPA: mˈɑrdʒɝʌn
noun
- A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.
- (dated) The solid ingredient of human fat, olive oil, etc.
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Examples of "margarine" in Sentences
- Add the pineapple and margarine.
- Shortened from the word margarine .
- Both margarine and butter are semi solid.
- It is a documented attribute of margarine.
- Brush both sides of cheese with margarine.
- This may be eaten with butter or margarine.
- It is the bestseller margarine in the world.
- The material can be either a melange or a margarine.
- Margarine can be substituted for better in this recipe.
- It is not standardized and is specific to butter and margarine.
- Continue working the dough with the dough hook, slowly beating in margarine cubes one at a time.
- “Oleo,” from the Latin oleum oil, was attached as a prefix to the word margarine and was commonly part of the name until after World War II.
- Butter producers objected and by virtue of the Margarine Act of 1886, the term margarine became the official "legal" term rather than butterine.
- If I carefully select my margarine, the effort that goes into researching which margarine is best is not wasted, since I alone have control over the outcome and I can guarantee that the outcome reflects whatever level of consideration I gave it.
- The term margarine may have been coined by Hippolyte Mège-Mouries but, it may have taken him quite a bit longer to concoct his invention if it hadn't been for the isolation process of fatty acids by Michel Eugène Chevreul, a true innovator in his own right who is credited with many chemical discoveries.