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NIU huskies 1
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Member # 863

posted November 10, 2004 10:37 AM

Hi! I have a recipe that requires oleo, only I have no idea what it is! So, what is it, and are there any substitutions for it? Thanks!

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Arian
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Member # 453

posted November 12, 2004 02:48 PM

Hi,

Oleo is spanish or italian for oil, probably olive oil although usually in recipes there is some mention of what kind of oil.

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Bean
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Member # 37

posted November 13, 2004 03:04 AM

NIU huskies 1, we grew up calling butter oleo. Maybe that is what the recipe means.

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cliff
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posted November 13, 2004 03:53 AM

I remember one time my wife wrote on the shopping list oleo and when I got home she asked where it was and I said I couldn't find it and she said it was butter. I asked why she just didn't write butter and she said everyone knows what oleo is but not me. Me being from the north and her the south it was just a language difference.

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Pat A.
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posted November 14, 2004 03:40 PM

Oleo is margarine.....Just a brand name.....like blue bonnett, etc.

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Banana Bread
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Member # 222

posted December 21, 2004 09:50 PM

Oleomargarine was one word in the forties. It is a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter. Margarine and oleo are the same thing. Some people refer to margarine as butter even though it isn't; it's a butter substitute.

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Hillary
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posted October 15, 2006 03:43 PM

I thought it was a margarine made using olive oil?

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