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Dessert spoon   /dɪzˈərt spun/   Listen
noun
Dessert  n.  A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner. ""An 't please your honor," quoth the peasant, "This same dessert is not so pleasant.""
Dessert spoon, a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon.
Dessert-spoonful, n., pl. Dessert-spoonfuls, as much as a dessert spoon will hold, usually reckoned at about two and a half fluid drams.






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"Dessert spoon" Quotes from Famous Books



... piece of butter with it. It must boil till tender, but not till it breaks. Throw it into the soup shortly before it goes to table, and give it one boil up. Send to table with it a plate or glass of rasped Parmesan or other rich cheese, with a dessert spoon in it, that those who like it may put it into their soup on ...
— Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches • Eliza Leslie



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