butterine
(ˈbʌtəriːn)
[f. butter n.1 + -ine.]
An imitation butter manufactured from oleomargarine (one of the constituents of animal fat) churned up with milk. (By Act 50 & 51 Vict. xxix. ‘all substances, whether compound or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter’ must after 1 Jan. 1888, be offered for sale under the name of Margarine.)
| 1874 [advertised in ‘The Grocer’ in March.] 1878 Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. De Chaumont) 270 note, A substance from New York has lately made its appearance in the market under the name of butterine. 1881 Times 5 Apr. 10/1 A substance which is called ‘butterine’ in commerce and oleo-margarine in laboratories. 1882 in Nature XXV. 270 Oleo-margarine..is made into butterine by adding 10 per cent. of milk to it, and churning the mixture. 1887 Newspaper 14 July, The dairy farmers scored heavily against the butterinists by securing the substitution of the word ‘margarine’ for ‘butterine’ in the bill for regulating the sale of imitation butter. |