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- noun Plural form of
apostle spoon ., usually as aset of twelve representing the differentapostles .
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chained_bear commented on the word apostle spoons
"Each place would be set with a napkin for the guest to throw over his or her left shoulder and a knife and spoon of wood, horn, silver or pewter, though most diners continued to carry their own knife and the christening spoon given to them at birth--the origin of the expression about the wealthy being born with silver spoons in their mouths--often with a little knob or saint's head at the end so that they were known as apostle spoons."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 74
See also Puritan spoon.
January 8, 2017
bilby commented on the word apostle spoons
I'm going to bring back the tradition of throwing napkins over shoulders.
January 12, 2017