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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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In a large sauté pan, heat three tablespoons of olive oil and stir in three large garlic cloves, thinly sliced.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

To make, simply grind a few tablespoons of chia seeds and mix them with water to form a sort of “glue” that holds the crackers together.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 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

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

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

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