Anybody know what this is?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

I just encountered a term I've never seen before.

A recipe calls for "a saltspoonful of celery salt."

What's a saltspoonful?

[pleah]

1. I found this:

http://www.nextag.com/salt-spoon/products-html

They look to be approximately a 1/4 teaspoon size? They are about 2 1/2 inches long.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. That's a great start ........

I just kept linking on after that site, and look what I finally found (hell of a story, no):

http://imageobjex.blogspot.com/2009/02/salt-spoon-anorexia.html

Thank you for helping. I think I got it nailed now.

:toast:

[pleah]

3. You are very welcome!

:toast: :hi:

Thanks for that link, I bookmarked it!;-)

[pleah]

4. Oh, I forgot about this,

in most kitchen stores now they have dab, pinch and such measuring spoons. I am planning on getting a set. So, if salt spoons are a pinch of salt this set of measuring spoons could be handy.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. That's interesting ........

I rarely use measuring spoons, since I'm more of an instinctive cook, not terribly precise. But, when you get them, please let me know what a "dab" looks like.

Isn't it funny? Do you have pictures in your head of what they all look like? A pinch is smaller than a dab, and so forth ................

:hi:

[pleah]

6. I don't measure a lot of things either.

I guess most people that have been cooking a long time don't need to, but I thought it would be fun to get them anyway. I make up my own recipes sometimes. I came up with my very own recipe for Oriental sauce and a Mexican Red sauce:hi:

[bicentennial_baby]

7. I have that set

My Mom gave it to me...it's cute, but I never use it, so far. :shrug:

[pleah]

9. I don't know that I would use it much, either, but, I thought it would be fun to have.

:)

[Tangerine LaBamba]

12. Oh, if you're One Of Those,

please let me empty my kitchen into yours, and you can have all the things I'm ditching. I'm sure you're hot to have that special sushi roll holder and, of course, how can you live without that lovely cucumber seeder?

I really wonder where I got some of this stuff .................

[pleah]

18. Thanks for the offer, but

I don't eat sushi. lol

No I really don't buy junk I don't need. I have about 5 whisks and still use a fork to beat my eggs most of the time. lol

You should see my kitchen. It is crammed full. What I really need is a pantry.

[Warpy]

8. I had some very stuffy relatives who used them with salt cellars

which were heavy crystal containers placed on the table at intervals. One would scoop up a silver spoonful of salt and use the spoon to sprinkle it over the food, very civilized.

As I recall (and I was only a kid), the spoons held just under a quarter teaspoonful, about what you'd get from several vigorous shakes of a salt shaker.

I'd use a scant 1/4 teaspoonful.

[troubleinwinter]

10. Ugh.

I grew up around those things, in silver, pewter, and especially mother-of-pearl. My grandparents used those saccharin 'pills' in their coffee in the 50s & 60s and used old fashioned salt spoons to spoon them out of the tiny (salt) dish. Gack. They thought saccharin was "healthier" than a spoon of sugar. Ew.

They were originally used at the table for salt. The Victorians loved specialized dishes for everything.

I guess we would now call it "a pinch". About 1/8 tsp.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

11. Remember those?

Ewww, the taste of saccharine, but women back then also got "mother's little helpers" from their doctors, and who knew that those very proper ladies were speed freaks?

I use a beautiful silver Movado pill box for kosher salt - next to the stove, since I only use kosher salt when I'm cooking - and I can grab a nice pinch very easily. A spoon would just be another thing I'd have to get rid of.

There are so many "things" out there, and I'm trying to simply everything, giving away lots of stuff. But there is something quite lovely about salt cellars at table, with the proper spoons - like mother-of-pearl. Plus, the spoon can also work when you want to serve your caviar properly.

::::: sniff :::::::

I mean, can you imagine serving caviar with a :::: gasp ;;;;; non-silver or non-mother-of-pearl spoon?

Thanks for the help.

:toast:

[troubleinwinter]

13. Hahaha!!!

I also use an elegant garnet cloisonne box next to the stove for my kosher salt. I put the lid *somewhere*??? No spoon- finger grab!

Mother-of-pearl for caviar... NOW yer talking some real serious turkey.

[catnhatnh]

14. Caviar must never be touched by any utensil not made of silver

and has been known to deteriorate even in silver plated utensils if an unmatched set is used or &%$*&(&*(#!!!! GOD DAMN IT!!! I just spilled a can of beer all over the #$*&^*%@)in' nachos! I'll get back to you with the rest of it...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

15. I am laughing so hard,

I can hardly see.

If you'd used your proper silver tongs - NOT silverplated - with those nachos, you wouldn't have that messy, messy problem you're now having.

Aw, poor baby. You break me up........

:toast:

Now I'm hungry for hot dogs. And I have some Oscar Meyers in the fridge.

Naw, too late.

Eat up, cupcake.......................

[catnhatnh]

16. Oh Tangerine-Oscar Meyer???

WE are indeed star crossed. Up there you are a Goddess of proper place settings and spoons.And down here it is Frito pies in a double wide. And as a poor boy I worship polish and breeding. Yet somewhere in black and white a sophisticated starlet (think:Katherine Hepburn) reacts to the less refined common guy (think: Humphrey Bogart, but without the looks or social skills)...But this time instead of you tossing my scotch to save my soul, I will toss your Oscar Mayer's to save your taste buds..."Oh NO Missy....please don't eat these...."

Because I know Oscar Mayer and you'd be better off eating the leeches. But you look VERY fetching in that Victorian dress...

[Tangerine LaBamba]

17. Speaking of polish,

my mother's family had some polish relatives. From poland. Not the one in Maine, either.

That said, let me explain, Bogie - and he was but a pale imitation of you - how I had someone make a fast grocery store run for me last week, and that is how I came to be in possession of not one, but TWO, packs of the Oscar Meyer dogs. My personal first choice is Nathan's, but then I have to run out and eat them on the street, which makes things complicated sometimes. Especially when there's lots of traffic.

I still dream of your relish, with relish. Isn't that the best way to dream of relish?

What was Oscar like? Did he wear a yarmulke? Oh, dear. Now I'm seized with the urge to attack my new refrigerator and empty it.

Be careful with my heart, Bogie - it's as tender as an undercooked wiener ..............

[troubleinwinter]

19. Silver tongs and one of these:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

20. I think so .............

Yep, when catnhatnh gets into the caviar, he's almost always wearing one of those.

Actually, it looks good on him. Even when it drips. He's got that Marlon Brando "Streetcar Named Desire" Stanley Kowalski thing going on.........................

[troubleinwinter]

21. OMG

I just have to try caviar nachos!! Cheez Whiz, I assume.

[yy4me]

22. Is this recipe from a very old cookbook? If it is, then it may refer

to the old, mostly silver salt spoons used by people in the earlier centuries. They are tiny spoons, probably about 3" long, just a miniature of a larger round bowl spoon. I have several and I would estimate that the spoons hold about a quarter of a teaspoon of salt.

Salt was for years placed at the table in a cellar(small receptacle) with a separate spoon. You sprinkled your salt from the spoon. Salt shakers and graduated measures are a later addition to our serving and measuring needs.

Edit to add: Found in many antique shops with other silver goodies. Should retail for about $20.00 in sterling--at least around here.