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Fats and Oils

 
 
 
Butter
Fat from sour or sweet cream gathered in a mass, sometimes salted and colored. It contains not less than 80% by weight of milk fat.
Compound
A mixture of animal fats, a mixture of vegetable fats or a mixture of both.
Corn Oil
Refined oil from dried, crushed corn germ.
Cottonseed Oil
Refined oil from the crushed seed of the cotton plant.
Cracklings
The residue from rendered fat of meat.
Hydrogenated Fats
Oils or soft fats changed to solid fat by treatment with hydrogen.
Lard
Fat rendered from the fatty tissues of the hog.
Margarine
Product made by the emulsification of various refined oils with cultured milk and further processing to produce a consistency similar to that of butter; contains 80% fat, usually colored; may or may not have salt added.
Nut Margarine
May also be referred to as vegetable margarine; made wholly from vegetable fats.
Olive Oil
Oil from flesh of ripe olives. Virgin olive oil is that which is first extracted and is better in flavor and appearance than the oil produced by the second or third pressing.
Peanut Oil
The oil extracted from peanuts. A byproduct of peanut butter.
Poultry Fat
A cooking fat made commercially by rendering the leaf fat removed from the body cavity of chickens and turkey and sometimes from the fat that is skimmed from vats of poultry being cooked from canning.
Safflower Oil
The Oil extracted from seed of the safflower plant; used for any cooking purposes; also used commercially for the manufacture of safflower margarine.
Suet
Clear, white fat of beef and mutton, usually from around the heart or kidney.
Sweet butter
Made from sweet cream. Unsalted.
Whipped Butter
Butter into which air has been whipped.