It measured just a little more than a dessert spoonful.

Put dessert spoonful into bottom of champagne glass and fill with bubbly.

Near a dessert spoonful it might have been.

Place a heaped dessert spoonful into each paper case and then put the muffins in the oven straight away.

Add the heaped dessert spoonful of sugar, then whisk for another few seconds until white and glossy.

Dessert spoonful and tablespoonful may also be found in drink and food recipes.

As for quantities, a level dessert spoonful in about half a tumbler of milk before breakfast should suffice.

Drop dessert spoonfuls on a baking tray.

Drop a dessert spoonful of the mixture on to the pan and cook until bubbles rise to the surface and pop.

Drop dessert spoonfuls of mixture onto greased oven trays and bake at 190c. for 10 minutes until golden brown.

Feed your horse a dessert spoonful of maize or soya oil once a day instead of cod liver oil.

The recommended recipe of the "magic elixir" is a dessert spoonful of cornflour and half a glass of milk, brought to a gentle simmer - and a drop or two of brandy.

Special because of the secret ingredient which was a dessert spoonful of sugar, held in the top of the fire until it flamed, when it would be stirred rapidly in the gravy, a job that I liked doing.

Pouring out a dessert spoonful of the gentle aperient I commonly employ for this ailment, I seized him by the nose and, as his mouth opened in a quest for oxygen, I poured the medicine down his throat.

Sauce for raw oysters Take 1 dessert spoonful of Tarragon vinegar 1 tablespoonful olive oil 1/2 teaspoonful Worcestershire sauce the juice of half a lemon and 1/2 teaspoonful Tabasco sauce Add a little salt and 1/2 of an onion, grated fine.