List of spreads facts for kids

Pâté spread atop bread

This is a list of spreads. A spread is a food that is literally spread, generally with a knife, onto food items such as bread or crackers. Spreads are added to food to enhance the flavor or texture of the food, which may be considered bland without it.

Spreads

Ajvar atop bread

Butter is often served for spreading on bread with a butter knife.

Chopped liver on bread

Clotted cream

Kartoffelkäse atop bread

Tahini

• Aioli — sauce made of garlic, salt, and olive oil of the northwest Mediterranean
• Ajvar — Southeast European condiment made from red bell peppers, eggplants, garlic and oil
• Amlu – Moroccan spread of argan oil, almonds and honey
• Apple butter - Caramelized, concentrated apple sauce
• Bacon jam
• Bean dip – sometimes used as a spread
• Beer jam
• Biber salçası — Anatolian paste made from red chili peppers or sweet long peppers and salt
• Biscoff — Sweet paste made from Biscoff biscuits
• Butter

• Rucava white butter
• Chocolate butter

• Chutney — sauce of the Indian subcontinent of tomato relish, a ground peanut garnish or a yogurt, cucumber and mint dip
• Cheong — various sweetened Korean foods in the form of syrups, marmalades and fruit preserves
• Chocolate spread
  • Gianduja
  • Nutella
• Citadel spread — paste made of peanut butter, oil, sugar and milk powder
• Clotted cream
• Coconut jam - a general term for coconut-based jams in Southeast Asia. Coconut jams include kaya of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore; sangkhaya of Thailand; and matamis sa bao, latik, or kalamay of the Philippines.
• Cookie butter
• Cretons — pork spread containing onions and spices, from Quebec
• Dulce de Leche — confection from Latin America prepared by slowly heating sweetened milk
• Egg butter
• Electuary (Larwerge) — a honey-thickened juice spread popular in Switzerland, often made with forest fruit such as juniper or pine
• Féroce — made of avocados, cassava, olive oil, lime juice, salt cod, garlic, chili peppers, hot sauce, and seasonings, from Martinique
• Filet américain — Belgian variation of Steak tartare
• Flora
• Foie gras
• Guacamole
• Heinz Sandwich Spread
• Honey
• Hummus
• Smörgåskaviar – a fish roe spread eaten in Scandinavia and Finland
• Kartoffelkäse
• Kaya (jam) – coconut jam, commonly eaten as Kaya toast
• Kyopolou — Bulgarian and Turkish spread made from roasted eggplants and garlic
• Latik - also known as "coconut caramel", a traditional Filipino sweet syrup made from coconut milk and sugar.
• Liver spread - also known as "lechon sauce", a Filipino spread made from pureed cooked pork or chicken liver with spices, vinegar, and brown sugar.
• Ljutenica — vegetable relish or chutney in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Serbia
• Lox
• Manjar blanco — term used in Spanish-speaking world to a variety of milk-based delicacies
• Manteca colorá — Andalusian spread prepared by adding spices and paprika to lard, cooked with minced or finely chopped pieces of pork
• Maple butter
• Margarine
• Marshmallow creme
• Mint jelly
• Moambe – also referred to as palm butter, or palm cream
• Mayonnaise
• Miracle Whip
• Nut butter
  • Almond butter
  • Cashew butter
  • Hazelnut butter
  • Peanut butter
• Palm butter – a spread made of palm oil designed to imitate dairy butter
• Paprykarz szczeciński — Polish spread made from ground fish, rice, tomato paste, vegetable oil, onion, salt and spices
• Pâté
  • Chopped liver
  • Liver pâté
  • Pheasant paste
• Pesto
• Peabutter
• Pimento cheese
• Pindjur — Bulgarian, Serbian, Bosnian and Macedonian spread which ingredients include red bell peppers, tomatoes, garlic, vegetable oil and salt
• Remoulade — European cold sauce based on mayonnaise
• Rillettes — French paste made with pork or other meats and sometimes with anchovies, tuna or salmon
• Schmaltz — rendered (clarified) chicken or goose fat
• Sobrassada — typical from the Balearic Isles, made from pork, paprika, salt and other spices.
• Sunflower butter
• Tahini – paste made from ground, husk hulled sesame seeds
• Tapenade — Provençal spread of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers and anchovies
• Taramasalata — Greek meze made from salted and cured roe of the cod, carp or grey mullet mixed with olive oil, lemon juice, and bread or potatoes
• Tartar sauce
• Zacuscă — vegetable spread popular in Romania and Moldova

• Various spreads
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  Bacon jam atop bread

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  Cashew butter being ground

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  Manteca colorá

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  Maple butter

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  Peanut butter in a jar

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  Rillettes

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  Tapenade

Cheeses and cheese spreads

Almogrote

Benedictine used as a dip

A bagel and cream cheese

Cheeses used as a spread and cheese spreads include:

• Almogrote
• Alouette cheese
• Beer cheese
• Benedictine
• Brie – sometimes used as a spread
• Cheez Whiz
• Cervelle de canut
• Cold pack cheese
• Cream cheese
• Creole cream cheese
• Cup cheese
• Catupiry
• Dairylea
• Easy Cheese
• Farmer cheese – sometimes used as a spread
• Fromage blanc
• Fromage fort
• Laughing Cow
• Liptauer
• Moretum
• Obatzda
• Pimento cheese
• Port wine cheese
• Pub cheese
• Requeijão
• Rushan cheese
• Tirokafteri
• Prim

Fruit spreads and preserves

A spoonful of “rinse appelstroop” (sweet and sour apple butter), a Dutch syrup specialty made from apple and sugar beet juice.

Yuja-cheong

Fruit spreads and preserves include:

• Apple butter
• Apricot Jam
• Bar-le-duc jelly
• Berry Jam
  • Berries
• Birnenhonig
• Cabell d'àngel
• Chutney
• Coconut jam
• Confit
• Confiture
• Confiture de lait
• Conserves
• Eggplant jam
• Fruit butter
• Fruit curd
• Guava jelly
• Hagebuttenmark – a fruit preserve made from rose hips, sugar and sometimes red wine
• Lekvar
• Lingonberry jam
• Marmalade
• Nièr beurre
• Pepper jelly
• Powidl – a plum butter prepared without additional sweeteners or gelling agents
• Quince cheese
• Sirop de Liège – prepared using evaporated fruit juices
• Tomato jam
• Ube halaya – also known as Ube jam
• Yuja-cheong

• Fruit spreads and preserves
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  Close-up view of a coconut jam

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  Pancakes with lingonberry jam

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  Homemade English marmalade

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  A jar of nièr beurre

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  Red pepper jelly

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  Powidl plum butter

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  Quince cheese

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  Strawberry jam

Yeast extract spreads

Marmite spread on toasted bread

Yeast extract spreads include:

• AussieMite
• Cenovis
• Guinness Yeast Extract
• Marmite
• Marmite (New Zealand)
• Oxo
• Promite
• Vegemite
• Vitam-R