A sugar spoon is a piece of
cutlery
Cutlery (also referred to as silverware, flatware, or tableware), includes any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in Western culture. A person who makes or sells cutlery is called a cutler. The city of Sheffie ...
used for serving
granulated sugar
White sugar, also called table sugar, granulated sugar, or regular sugar, is a commonly used type of sugar, made either of beet sugar or cane sugar, which has undergone a refining process.
Description
The refining process completely removes ...
. This type of
spoon
A spoon is a utensil consisting of a shallow bowl (also known as a head), oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery (sometimes called flatware in the United States), especially as part of a place setting, it is used primarily for ...
resembles a
teaspoon
A teaspoon (tsp.) is an item of cutlery. It is a small spoon that can be used to stir a cup of tea or coffee, or as a tool for Cooking measures, measuring volume. The size of teaspoons ranges from about . For cooking purposes and dosing of med ...
, except that the bowl is deeper and often molded in the shape of a
sea shell
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, giving it the name ''sugar shell''. Sugar spoons are sometimes called "sugar shovels" because of their rectangular shape and deep bowl.
Sterling silver sugar spoons are used with formal silver
coffee
Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulant, stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popular hot drink in the world.
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or
tea set
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[ Random House Unabridged Dictionary]
Sugar spoon entry on Infoplease web site
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See also
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List of eating utensils
A variety of eating utensils have been used by people to aid eating when dining. Most societies traditionally use bowls or dishes to contain food to be eaten, but while some use their hands to deliver this food to their mouths, others have deve ...
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List of serving utensils
This is a list of serving utensils.
* Knives
** Butter knife
** Cake and pie server
* Spoons
** Caviar spoon
** Ladle (spoon)
** Salt spoon
** Scoop (utensil)
** Slotted spoon
** Sugar spoon
* Miscellaneous
** Toffee hammer
** Tongs
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Table setting
Table setting (laying a table) or place setting refers to the way to set a table with tableware—such as eating utensils and for serving and eating. The arrangement for a single diner is called a place setting. It is also the layout in which th ...
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Spoons
Serving utensils