mellorine
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mellorine (uncountable)
- A lower-cost imitation of ice cream, using fats other than butterfat.
- 1931, American Beef Producer, page 26:
- "Mellorine" is providing a new and promising market for beef fats. It is a frozen desert, closely resembling ice cream.
- 1939, Food Industries Manual, British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association, page 597:
- Mellorine is a recent American term for "ice cream" which is made not from butter fat but from vegetable oils, because the term "ice cream" in the United States is only permitted for foods containing butter fat as the sole source of fat […]
- 2013, William Shurtleff, History of Soy Ice Cream and Other Non-Dairy Frozen Desserts[1]:
- The author advocates creation of a mellorine association to work with the National Cotton Council and the American Soybean Association in working to develop legislation favorable to mellorine and to block restrictive legislation.
