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It was intended as a butter substitute.
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It's the process of creaming it, like butter, that lends it name to peanut butter.
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Butter: 1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. 2. Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao, vegetable butter, shea butter. No, many things are buttery in their consistency like fruit butters (apple or peach butter) There's cocoa butter, avocado butter. Lots of nut butters like peanut and cashew and almond.
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