Science for beginners . of renovated, or processbutter, is regulated by law. The law intends that the pur-chaser shall know that he is buying such an article and nottrue butter. All renovated butter must be properly Butterine, or Oleomargarine.—Because of the highprice of butter fat, various cheaper fats are sometimes usedfor the manufacture of substitutes for butter. These substi-tutes are called butterine, or oleomargerine. Butterine is 344 FOOD—ITS USES AND PREPARATION a healthful and nutritious food and may be used instead ofbutter in the diet. Good butterine is better than po
Science for beginners . of renovated, or processbutter, is regulated by law. The law intends that the pur-chaser shall know that he is buying such an article and nottrue butter. All renovated butter must be properly Butterine, or Oleomargarine.—Because of the highprice of butter fat, various cheaper fats are sometimes usedfor the manufacture of substitutes for butter. These substi-tutes are called butterine, or oleomargerine. Butterine is 344 FOOD—ITS USES AND PREPARATION a healthful and nutritious food and may be used instead ofbutter in the diet. Good butterine is better than poor unscrupulous manufacturers and dealers in but-terine have tried to sell their product as butter, the manu-facture and sale of butterine is surrounded by many legal re-strictions. Many grades of butterine are manufactured. Inthe best grades a considerable quantity of butter fat is usedto impart a flavor of real butter to the product. In thecheaper grades very little butter fat is used. The fats used. Fig. 214.—Churning oleomargarine. as substitutes for butter fat in butterine come from animalsand from the cotton seed. One of the substituted fats iscalled neutral. Neutral is made from the leaf lard of hogsby rendering (trying out) the material at a very low tempera-ture and then expressing (pressing out) the liquid fat fromthe tissues. It is without odor and taste. Another sub-stituted fat is called oleo oil. This oil is expressed from thefat of cattle. These animal oils are prepared from animalswhich have been inspected by United States inspectors and PROCESSING FOOD 345 passed. They are prepared in a sanitary manner and arewholesome articles of food (Art. 405). Cotton seed oilproducts (Art. 407) are sometimes used in butterine in addi-tion to the fats mentioned. Such amounts of these fats areused as will give with the butter fat a mixture resemblingtrue butter. The cream in the milk is ripened (Fig. 213 asfor the ordinary methods of churning. The proper
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