Teaspoon

Cup, kubek.

A teaspoon is a small spoon used for measuring tiny amounts in recipes.

Teaspoon, łyżka stołowa.

A tablespoon holds a larger amount than a teaspoon and is often used for sauces or baking.

Tablespoon, łyżka stołowa.

In the 18th century, a dish of tea was in reality a cup of tea, for the word dish meant a cup or vessel used for drinking as well as a utensil to hold food at meals.

a play on this word is evident in the following exchange reported by philip fithian between himself and mrs carter the mistress of nominy hall one october forenoon in seventeen seventy three shall i help you mr fithian to a dish of coffee i choose a deep plate if you please ma'am and milk the above suggests that the practice of saucer sipping while it may have been common among the general public was frowned upon by polite society the fact that americans preferred and were accustomed to eating everything hot further explains why tea generally was drunk from the cup instead of the saucer according to peter combe when the englishwomen that is of english descent drank tea they never poured it out of the cup into the saucer to cool it but drank it as hot as it came from the teapot later in the century another naturalist c f volney also noted that very hot tea was beloved by americans of english descent from this it would appear that dish of tea was an expression rather than a way of drinking tea in the eighteenth century on the table a saucer seems always to have been placed under the cup whether the cup was right side up or upside down tea-spoons when in use might be placed on the saucer or left in the cups the portrait titled mrs combs painted by g freymire in eighteen o six indicates that handling a cup with the spoon in it could be accomplished with a certain amount of grace Teaspoons also were placed in a pile on the table or in a silver boat for teaspoons, or more often in such ceramic containers as Delftware spoon trays or blue and white or stenciled china spoon boats.

Tongs were especially suited for lifting the lumps of sugar from their container to the teacup.

during the eighteenth century both arched and scissor-type tongs were used instead of points the latter had dainty flat grips for holding a lump of sugar the early arched tongs were round in section as are the pair illustrated in tea party in the time of george i while tongs, made by arching or bending double a flat strip of silver, date from the second half of the eighteenth century.

These articles of tea equipage, variously known as tongs, tea tongs, silver tea tongs, and sugar tongs, were usually made of silver, though ivory and wooden tea tongs were advertised in 1763.

According to the prints and paintings of the period, tongs were placed in or near the sugar container.

Teaspoons were also used for sugar, as illustrated in the painting Susanna Truax.

Perhaps young Miss Truax is about to indulge in a custom favored by the Dutch population of Albany, as reported by Peter Kalm in 1749.