Cookie butter Cookie butter Cookie butter (Dutch: "Speculoospasta", Danish: "Trøffel-masse") is a food paste made primarily from speculoos cookie crumbs (known as Biscoff in the USA), fat (such as vegetable oil, condensed milk or butter), flour, and sugar. The ingredients are mixed until it becomes spreadable on a sandwich. In countries like Belgium, the Netherlands, and France, it is a common alternative to nut butter and chocolate spreads. The most common brand name is Lotus Bakeries. In 2007, two individual inventors took part in a Belgian TV inventor show, called De Bedenkers ("The Thinkers"), with competing recipes for a similar product: to
Vegetable oil fuel used may seem insignificant today, but such oils may perhaps become in course of time of the same importance as some natural mineral oils and the tar products are now." Periodic petroleum shortages spurred research into vegetable oil as a diesel substitute during the 1930s and 1940s, and again in the 1970s and early 1980s when straight vegetable oil enjoyed its highest level of scientific interest. The 1970s also saw the formation of the first commercial enterprise to allow consumers to run straight vegetable oil in their automobiles, Elsbett of Germany. In the 1990s Bougainville conflict, islanders cut off from