servingspoonful

See also: serving spoonful, and serving-spoonful

English

Noun

servingspoonful (plural servingspoonfuls or servingspoonsful)

1. Rare form of serving spoonful.
   • 1946, Gayelord Hauser, The Gayelord Hauser Cook Book: Good Food, Good Health, Good Looks, New York, N.Y.: Capricorn Books, published 1963, pages 130 and 177:

     Divide into heaping servingspoonfuls and mold into the desired shape. […] Mix with the rice and egg and form into patties, using a heaping servingspoonful for each.

   • 1955, René Black, The René Black Cookbook: Cuisine Versus Cooking, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →LCCN, page 162:

     Put 1 large servingspoonful of the batter into the pan; […]

   • 1955 April 26, “Rice Favored In Hamburgers”, in Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph, volume 56, number 84, Pittsburgh, Pa., page 21, column 3:

     Mix with the rice and egg and form into patties, using a heaping servingspoonful for each.

   • 1969, Robert Farrar Capon, “And She Took Flour . . .”, in The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 114:

     One servingspoonful of spaetzle is like the opening measures of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons: Any man who walks out early on either proves he doesn’t understand the genre—and he misses the repose of the end.

   • 1976 August 8, “Sing along to a vegetable medley!”, in The Argus, 125th year, number 268, Rock Island, Ill., page 18, column 1:

     Drop by servingspoonsful into skillet and fry in oil, turning once.

   • 1986, Malabar Hornblower, Do-Ahead Dining: Cooking for Company with Do-Ahead Recipes and Menus, Chester, Conn.: The Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, page 299:

     Transfer the dough to a pastry sleeve fitted with a ¾-inch round tip, and squeeze out approximately 8 mounds, about 3 inches in diameter; or form mounds with heaping servingspoonfuls of dough.

   • 2004, Maureen Child, “Lost in Sensation”, in Love—from His Point of View!, Richmond, Surrey: Harlequin Mills & Boon Limited, published 2009, →ISBN, chapter 2:

     “Have some of this macaroni salad,” Eric’s sister Debbie was saying as she plopped a heaping servingspoonful onto his plate.