Article: KNIFING YOUR WAY THROUGH THE MARGARINE MAZE.(Spotlight on Food)

Byline: Pat Kendall

Your favorite recipe for cookies, the one handed down from your grandmother, calls for ``a stick of oleo.'' You can't find anything labeled ``oleo'' in the supermarket, and the products that resemble oleomargarine don't seem to work as well as you'd like.

So what do you do?

There are choices, but first, a brief history lesson.

When oleomargarine was developed by a French pharmacist in the mid-1800s, it was the only butter substitute available. Now, with more than a dozen varieties of margarine and vegetable oil spreads on grocers' shelves, selecting the right margarine for your recipe can be difficult.

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