[Sca-cooks] Re:forks was: green ginger upon sirop

[johnna holloway]

Actually they are about the size of
a modern seafood cocktail fork... the
two pronged variety. Now where is the
book on silver tableware from the U.K.?

Johnna Holloway

Elaine Koogler wrote:>
> Might this not be the ancestor of our pickle forks...it is a pretty close
> description of the ones I have.> Kiri
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> Actually the sucket fork was in use by this time but only for the
> sweets.  It appears to have been a either two- or three-pronged
> affair, often with a spoon on the other end.  Two are pictured on
> the cover of C. Anne Wilson's _Banquetting 'Stuffe'_.  The forks,
> which look like the tiny kind used today for canapes, appear to have
> been smaller than the forks we know today.  snipped-----
> Alys Katharine