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Tablespoon   /tˈeɪbəlspˌun/   Listen
Tablespoon

noun
1.
As much as a tablespoon will hold.  Synonym: tablespoonful.
2.
A spoon larger than a dessert spoon; used for serving.






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"Tablespoon" Quotes from Famous Books



... fine enough to retain the seeds. Put this in a spider; rub an even teaspoonful of potato flour with a tablespoonful of butter, add to the sauce, and when it boils break in as many eggs as required, keep them from sticking to the pan by running a tablespoon carefully around the edges; when the eggs are set remove from the sauce, place each one on a round of nice toast and pour the sauce around them; garnish with parsley ...
— The Golden Age Cook Book • Henrietta Latham Dwight

... teaspoon of milk magnesia. 2. One tablespoon of lime water. 3. One-half teaspoon ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... and set it where it will just simmer for an hour, or until the celery is perfectly tender. When cooked, add a pint of rich milk, part cream if you have it, salt to taste, and when boiling, stir in a tablespoon of flour rubbed smooth in a little milk. Boil ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg

... species of fascination, the Worm-suspect would then watch her turn out the hideous, sticky liquid, till the tablespoon was full and crowning over the brim of it all around. Why, even to this day, as the picture rises in memory, I feel my stomach roll and see the hard, wild grin on the face of Halstead as he watched the ordeal ...
— When Life Was Young - At the Old Farm in Maine • C. A. Stephens

... and Measures Three teaspoonfuls one tablespoon. Four tablespoonfuls one wine glass. Two wine glasses one gill. Two gills one tumbler or cup. Two cupfuls one pint. One quart sifted flour one pound. One quart granulated sugar one pound, nine ...
— Camping For Boys • H.W. Gibson

... enough education to be what you call a educated man. My father paid for a six months night course for me after peace. I learned to read and write and figure a little. I have used my tablespoon full of brains ever since, always adding to that start. I learned everything I could from the many white friends I have had. Any way, miss, I have known enough to make a ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration

... patient over on his face and press the abdomen to force out the air, then turn him over on the back so that the lungs may fill again, repeating this again and again till the doctor arrives. The best stimulants are strong tea or coffee; but when these are not sufficient, a tablespoon of brandy, whisky, or wine may ...
— The Miracle Mongers, an Expos • Harry Houdini

... strawberries (in March) rising from a drift of snow impregnated by all the distillations of all the flowers of all the summers of all the hills—because she would have given her soul to sit beside him on the table with the bowl on her lap and feed him with a tablespoon and, for her share of it, lick the spoon after his every mouthful. But it had been drummed into her that she was a woman of the world, the fashionable and all but incomprehensible world, the English ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke



Words linked to "Tablespoon" :   spoon, containerful



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