Originally Posted by
Rose_P
"Oleo" is an old time word that means "margarine". I don't know why it fell out of fashion, probably because of advertizing.
I can remember my mother making "oleo"; must have been right after WWll. She would take, what I guess was, lard purchased from the grocery store, and then mix a little package of coloring that came with the lard together until well mixed. I was fascinated by the lard turning from white to blue to orange to finally yellow, and each area was a different color until the whole thing was mixed and all yellow. Don't know if there was other oleo than came premixed.