Demitasse spoon

{{Short description|Spoon smaller than a teaspoon}}

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A demitasse spoon is a diminutive spoon, smaller than a teaspoon.{{cite web|url=http://www.antique-central.com/antique-demitasse-spoons.shtml |title=Looking for Info on Demitasse Spoons?|publisher=Antique-central.com |access-date=2011-01-18 | quote=Demitasse spoons are small, approximately three to four and a half inches in length, metal, usually silver but also in gold and stainless, with a wide bowl, and originally used to accompany coffee and tea in Europe and now North America.}} It is traditionally used for coffee drinks in specialty cups, such as a demitasse, and for spooning cappuccino froth. It is also used as a baby spoon,{{cite book|author1=Annette B. Natow|author2=Jo-Ann Heslin|title=No-Nonsense Nutrition for Your Baby's First Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hg-W4OPqqVAC&pg=PR11|date=August 1988|publisher=Jo Ann Heslin|isbn=978-0-13-623158-5|pages=11–|quote=The shape of a demitasse spoon is more appropriate.}}

{{cite journal

|jstor=3467526

|title=Establishing Good Food Habits

|journal=The American Journal of Nursing

|year=1950|quote=We have found that a spoon with a bowl which is long and narrow, like a demitasse spoon, fits the baby's mouth better than one with a broad, round bowl.

|volume=50

|pages=155–157

|last1=Weng

|first1=Lorraine

|issue=3

}} and in some surgical procedures.{{cite book|author1=Robert J. Fitzgibbons|author2=A. Gerson Greenburg|author3=Lloyd Milton Nyhus|title=Nyhus and Condon's hernia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfASqVs2r5QC&pg=PA219|year=2001|publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|isbn=978-0-7817-1962-9|pages=219–|quote=A demitasse spoon is useful instrument to retain and protect the peritoneum during suturing}}

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