bread and scrape en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) Bread spread with butter or margarine that has been scraped off again so as to leave only a thin layer.
That's very nicely done indeed, not bread and scrape, nor yet more butter than bread, as some of those wasteful huzzies, the servant girls, cut it.
1887, Alice King, The strange story at Lee, page 64: