What is oleo in a recipe

Thank goodness we live in a world where using it is no longer taxed or offending anybody. Have you ever found Oleo in an old recipe? What was it used for? I would love to see what the recipe says about it. Please share your Oleo recipes with us in the comments below! Your email address will not be published. Anyone remember the plastic bags with the orange capsule and white margarine that you had to squeeze to get it mixed up. Skip to content. Can you still buy Oleo?

What is the best substitute for oleo? Final Thoughts. When you purchase a digital subscription to Cake Central Magazine, you will get an instant and automatic download of the most recent issue. Decorating By mrsdawnwhite Updated 4 Dec , pm by Dharmadm. I was looking through some of my Grandmother's old cookbooks and alot of the recipes call for Oleo.. What exactly is it?

Is it something like butter? I just wondered because I've never heard of it before.. It is what they used to call margarine. A lot of my grandma's recipes call for it, too. I just subsitute butter. Butter is always better. Mmmmm, butter. Powered By Auroxa Web Development. Remember me.

Forget Password? Register Now. Reset Password. It just popped in my head and I googled it to see if anyone else had ever heard it called that or if it was because my grandmother was half German. Even back in the day they had condensed sweet milk in a can that was shelf stable. Sweet milk is whole milk. Its typically a southern term. Im from the South and grew up hearing my grandmother use it when referring to whole milk. Its used to describe what kind of milk to use in a recipe or when talking in general.

I am familiar with oleo. She passed away several years ago so cherish those recipes and think fondly of her everytime I make one of her favorites. I grew up hearing that come from my grandmom all the time. She and my mother told me stories about mixing in the coloring to make it more yellow. I grew up on margarine and remember thinking that real butter tasted weird. I believe the the original name for margarine was oleo-margarine. Somewhere along the line the oleo part got dropped.

You kneaded the package to mix the dye into the margarine to make it yellow. If I remember right, this was because the dairy people objected to the margarine being yellow. Since shortening was also white, I think that is way some people called both products shortening. Shortening was never meant to be a spread for bread, and margarine was. Now, of course, butter-flavor shortening is yellow. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Butter is still best, however.

I used to call it that when I was younger! I have some old recipes that call for oleo and it brings back memories. We grew up using oleo! I still call it that sometimes! I remember when growing up I preferred oleo to the real butter!

Now, butter is all we use. We also keep a stick out on table for use in an old-timey covered butter tray.