salt-spoons

Neither were there salt-spoons, so everybody dipped his greasy knife into the little pewter pot containing salt.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

To use one's own knife, spoon or fingers, instead of the butterknife, sugar-tongs or salt-spoons, is to persuade the company that you have never seen the latter articles before, and are unacquainted with their use.

Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life. Sarah Annie Frost

I bought a butter-knife to match a solid silver butter-dish, and a set of individual salt-spoons to match salt-cellars, and nut-picks and crackers to match something else.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

Everything had always to be done in Mrs. Grant's own particular way, even down to the placing of the salt-spoons.

To Love Margaret Peterson 1908

At meals she dips her bread into the salt-cellar, bites a bit off, and repeats the process, although providence (taking my shape) has caused salt-spoons to be placed at convenient intervals down the table.

Elizabeth and Her German Garden Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

Germany with what we consider the insufficient assistance of a tea-spoon, but I have never been in a private house where salt-spoons were not provided.

Home Life in Germany Alfred Sidgwick 1894

They examined it curiously; observing the rows of trumpet - shaped tubes one within the other, the little scoops, like revolving salt-spoons, which tossed the seed into the upper ends of the tubes that conducted it to the ground; till somebody said, "Good morning, Elizabeth-Jane."

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

They examined it curiously; observing the rows of trumpet-shaped tubes one within the other, the little scoops, like revolving salt-spoons, which tossed the seed into the upper ends of the tubes that conducted it to the ground; till somebody said, "Good morning, Elizabeth-Jane."

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

Take the salt out, wash your cellars, rub all the lumps out of the salt in a plate, with a knife-blade, fill your cellars again, smooth over the salt with your knife-blade, and see that the salt-spoons are in order.

The Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend: Containing Directions in Every Department of Housekeeping. Including the Duties of Wife and Mother 1875

There was, moreover, a touching representation of a young lady reading a manuscript in an unfathomable forest, and a charming whole length of a large-headed little boy, sitting on a stool with his legs foreshortened to the size of salt-spoons.

History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873