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Add the orange juice, the marmalade, and 1 table-spoon of the butter.
The Accidental Gourmet Sally Sondheim 2003
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Pour off all but a table-spoon of fat from the é pan.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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Pour off all but a table-spoon of fat from the é pan.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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Pour off all but a table-spoon of fat from the é pan.
THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003
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Moreover, the use of a spoon requires certain precision, such as, whether it is a tea-spoon, a table-spoon or a spoon used for dessert.
Chapter 12 1991
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A large table-spoon and fork should be placed on the dish, and the dish then held low, so that the guest may help himself easily, the servant standing at his left hand.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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He entreated me more than once to come in and win, but what with his table-spoon to my tea-spoon, his despatch to my despatch, and his appetite to my appetite, I was left far behind at the first mouthful, and had no chance with him.
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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If he had performed his contract, he would have spread over each table-spoon about as much silver as there is in a ten-cent piece; and such is the nature of silver that these spoons would have worn well for five or six years.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various
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On elegant tables, each plate or "cover" is accompanied by two large silver knives, a small silver knife and fork for fish, a small fork for the oysters on the half-shell, a large table-spoon for soup, and three large forks.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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He entreated me more than once to come in and win, but what with his table-spoon to my tea-spoon, his despatch to my despatch, and his appetite to my appetite, I was left far behind at the first mouthful, and had no chance with him.
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