Spread
Spread is the technical term for spreadable foods with a thick to pasty consistency, which are mainly consumed when they are spread on bread . In contrast, the term bread topping is not used in technical jargon for firm bread toppings such as sausage or cheese . Spreads are made on the basis of edible fats , edible oil , milk products , sugar , fruit , vegetables or seeds such as nuts , more rarely on the basis of meat, Sausage or fish .
There are sweet and salty or savory as well as animal and vegetable spreads. Mixed forms are also possible. As a rule, flavoring ingredients such as spices , aromas , sugar or cocoa are added .
Well-known sweet spreads are jam , jam , jelly and other fruit spreads , honey , sugar beet syrup and nut nougat cream . Salty and savory spreads are, for example, sausage spread , cream cheese , lard , anchovy paste , monkey fat and Liptauer . Peanut butter can be sweet or spicy. Vegetarian or vegan spreads are made from vegetables , e.g. B. Hummus made from chickpeas or made from yeast (e.g. Vegemite , Marmite , Cenovis ). Spreadable Fats like butter and margarine are only in the broad sense of the spreads and as spreadable fats referred.
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- Thorsten Dresler, Martin Stodolka: Food Lexicon Dr. Oetker , 4th edition, Oetker, Bielefeld 2004, article Brotaufstrich , p. 120, ISBN 978-3-7670-0590-7 .
