oleo

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The key is oleo saccharum, which sounds like an ingredient from a laboratory, but is really just a process that pulls essential oils from citrus using sugar.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020

But that hope might be oleo, a poor substitute.

From Time • May 13, 2013

Even in the U. S. last year's high butter prices caused a rise in oleo production from 263,000,000 lb. in 1934 to 379,000,000 lb. in 1935.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Senate granted only one concession to the butter makers: oleo would have to be sold in triangular instead of rectangular packages.

From Time Magazine Archive

Too tired to mix the saffron-colored powder into the hard cake of oleo, she simply smeared the white stuff on the bread and sprinkled the sugar over it.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison