The same thing occurs in frying food and in Buttering hot toast; so the idea is not a new one to the class.
"Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management"
Ministry of Education
While the governor was Buttering another muffin, and, according to the dietetic principle a little while ago announced, allowing it sufficiently to cool off, he continued the subject already opened by saying: I keep well by allowing hardly anything to trouble me, and by looking on the bright side of everything.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
I had a notion that chap Ogilvy was smart enough to know which side his bread is buttered on and who does the Buttering."
"The Valley of the Giants"
Peter B. Kyne