margarine
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- noun
- /ˈmɑrʤərɪn/
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margarina
- He prefers using margarine instead of butter when baking cookies.
- margarine and shortenings
- margarine or cooking oil
- fat margarines
No plant butters, no margarine, none of that foolishness.
- No plant butters, no margarine, none of that foolishness.
- If you know someone who's still afraid of butter, who still uses margarine or vegetable oil, please share this video with them.
- There are lots of recipes that include wheat and oats and bananas and canola oil and even margarine.
- Once it is blended, add vegan margarine and vanilla and applesauce, which is going to take the place of the egg, which I'm not using.
- You know, margarine was the bad guy without question.
- Then I'm going to take this ratchet margarine.
- We had to do trickery to make, you know, margarines and, and things that with chemistry that we've moved away from that.
Examples
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Larry orders wheat toast with corn oil margarine and black coffee.
Fiction book (1995) -
Yeah, roast, roasted with margarine.
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Do you put, like, margarine in it or something?
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I could pick up some margarine.
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Jackie, which do you prefer, margarine or vegetable oil?
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So by that, let's say compare margarine spread and compare that with butter.
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Mix coffee with baking powder, and then add margarine to the egg mixture.
Blog text (33) -
If you know someone who's still afraid of butter, who still uses margarine or vegetable oil, please share this video with them.
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You need margarine to sauté the mushrooms.
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Foods that are energy dense—oil, margarine, sugars—are very cheap per calorie to buy.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
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7.9
A soft spread made from vegetable oils used instead of butter
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A soft food used on bread, like butter or jam
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A spread made from vegetable oils used instead of butter
A spread made from vegetable oils used instead of butter, often on bread
Antonyms
How Butter-like
Surface Forms
Etymology
Margarine comes from the old Greek word margarites meaning 'pearl' because the first makers thought the product looked shiny and pearly. That's why the name was given to the pale, butter-like spread we use instead of butter.