Antonia / kitchen spread

Context, Antonia, give us context! The expression is not familiar to me (your current book must be British.) A wild guess - something like margarine or mayonnaise that you spread on everything in your kitchen?

Hi Khoff,

In a bowl beat the low-fat cooking spread, flours, oats sugar, eggs and buttermilk until smooth. (recipe for pear pancakes).

It is British.

Cooking spread does mean margerine, as Khoff suggested.

He did well 'cos I was racking my brains for what 'kitchen spread' could be. There is no such phrase. It's a lot easier if you ask for a translation of the real words A!

Hi to you both!

Thank you for helping me.

p.s. I thought khoff was female:)

Whoops. Sorry Khoff.

Nona - can't you tell by my picture? --(Ms.) Khoff

Guys, I have a problem.

What should I do with the cooking spread if it appears in the context:

Use butter, margarine or low-fat cooking spread.

In other words, what is the difference between margarine and kitchen spread?

I can't call it somekind of shortening because it's low-fat, and then it sounds awkard, if you know what I mean...

Butter is definitely not low-fat. Margarine is not especially low-fat either, but they say it's better for the health than butter. Then you may have a third kind of cooking substance which is low-fat (I've seen some in my supermarket).

I've found it on the Internet: it's a kind of spread used for cooking and it's low-fat. I was confused because I never cook on butter or margarine, we almost always use olive oil. I don't see butter as kitchen/cooking spread. I eat butter with fresh bread and home-made jam. this is what comes to my mind when I hear butter, not cooking.

Thanks Pieanne

I do cook with butter - sometimes -.