For the receipt (recipe) Pompkin Soop cut your Pompkin in such a manner as you may join it again handsomely; take out all the seeds and half of the Flesh (which you may do easily with a Table Spoon). A table spoon in 1769 was the spoon that you would use at a table to dine.
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The historical tidbit about the size of a tablespoon in 1769 is super interesting!
By: Deanna Parenti on October 21, 2021
at 8:05 am
And the tea spoon was the spoon used for taking tea. Neither the table spoon (spoon for the table) or tea spoon were standardized. It was Fanny Farmer who encouraged home cooks to use standardized measurements in her “The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook, 1896 that started the use of standardized measuring spoons as we know them.
By: hearttohearthcookery on October 21, 2021
at 8:15 am
Wow, that is so interesting!! I’ve been a baker for a long time and I didn’t know this.
By: Deanna Parenti on October 21, 2021
at 12:14 pm
That is why I love food history! It is so interesting!
By: hearttohearthcookery on October 21, 2021
at 12:23 pm