What is the difference between butter and margerine???

Question

What is the ratio between 1 stick of butter and 1 stick of margerine and can you substitue it in a bread pudding?

Answer 1

Butter is a dairy product while oleo is oil based.
You can substitute the same amounts, but will not have the richness that butter has in it using oleo. (oleo=margerine)

Answer 2

One can substitute for the other. For many years it was generally believed and promoted that margerine was healthier. But now the news is that both are are bad because they are fats (doesn't matter what kind, all excess fats & oils equally bad) which clog arteries and veins. Butter cost more but is better tasting so I switched back to butter.

Answer 3

Butter always tastes better. They can be interchanged equally. Butter is churned cream. Margarine is partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (trans-fat), a slow metabolic poison. Leave the margarine on the supermarket shelf, your arteries will thank you. Try this test; Take a fry pan with a pat of butter & one w/margarine and "burn" both. The butter will smell like burned butter, the margarine, you're going to need a gas mask.

Answer 4

Butter is a byproduct of milk. Margarine is primarily oils. It comes in solid form (in blocks like butter) and tubs of soft margarine. The solid form can be used in place of butter in cooking and baking; however, you might not want to use it in something that is known for its actual butter flavour. It's a good butter substitute in most cakes, cookies, etc and I wouldn't hesitate to use it in bread pudding.

Answer 5

Butter is a dairy product, margarine is an oil by product. If you are going to substitute use the same amount. It will have a more oily flavor than the butter version.

Answer 6

Yes--one for one. Margarine & butter can be used for each other unless the recipe says not to.

Butter is a natural product from milk cream, while margarine is made from oils. They have exactly the same calories & fat content, but margarine MAY be the "good" fat. (check the label)
Butter tastes WAY better!

Answer 7

Butter is pure and made from Cows milk. Margarine is synthetic and made from oils. It can contain some butter. Margarine will be fine in cooking, especially bread pudding........ Save us a bit...

Answer 8

Butter is made from milkfat while margarine is from vegetable fat. You can do a 1:1 substitution in bread pudding. However, with margarine, its less creamy.

Answer 9

NO, thats why it's called bread&butter pudding. Marg is full of stabalisers and rubbish. Butter is more natural.

Answer 10

margarine is made of oil you can get corn oil margarine or canola oil margarine etc. butter is made from the butterfat from a cow's milk & salt i think,& i never heard of bread & butter pudding i have heard it refered to as bread pudding. there are bread & butter pickles & they are pickles you eat with bread & butter.