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Print butter is an obsolete term for butter which was sold in wrappers printed with "some emblematic device" as a branding device (as modern butter almost always is). Originally the wrappers were normally cloth and sometimes washed and returned for re-use by the retailer. By the late 19th century greaseproof paper took over from cloth. The term is found in American sources from at least 1791 to 1949. Packages of butter thus wrapped were called prints (for example, pound prints, one pound each).
References to print butter remain in the US state of Connecticut legal code, requiring print butter to have the net weight printed in Gothic letters at least one-half inch high.
References
- Milton E. Parker (1948). "Princely Packets of Golden Health (A History of Butter Packaging)" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-25.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - "The emergence of dairy butter : Butter". www.webexhibits.org. Retrieved 2010-05-25.
- Combs, W.B.; Coulter, S.T.; Whitman, Dana W. (February 1941). "Avenized versus standard parchment for wrapping print butter". Journal of Dairy Science. 24 (2): 117–125. doi:10.3168/jds.S0022-0302(41)95392-4.
- ^ "Chapter 417: General provisions. Pure food and drugs". www.cga.ct.gov. 1949. Retrieved 2016-07-30.
