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tablespoons

  • plural
    of tablespoon.
    tablespoon
    noun
    a spoon larger than a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, used in serving food at the table and as a standard measuring unit in recipes.

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Toss 2 cups of small sourdough cubes with 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom and a pinch of kosher salt.

From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026

A lemonless macaroni soup in “The Modern Cook,” by the Victorian chef Charles Elmé Francatelli, is inexplicably called “lemony” and gets a “remapping” with 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Twenty grams of high-fat cream is about 1.4 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

Every year there is the faintly absurd recipe of a dollop of briefing, several tablespoons of speculation and a sprinkling of leaks.

From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2025

Once it cooled I managed to scrape out a few tablespoons.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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