salt spoon

a small spoon with which to take salt at the table.

Origin of salt spoon

First recorded in 1810–20

Add a few blades of mace, a salt-spoon of salt, and a little more butter rolled in flour.

Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book |Eliza Leslie
Zeffie, you know no end of games—what's that one you played at home, with potatoes and a salt-spoon, you know?

Voces Populi |F. Anstey
It replaced the salt-spoon, and was frequently used for conveying food to the mouth.

Old and New Paris, v. 1 |Henry Sutherland Edwards
To make this pudding,--stir gradually four table-spoonfuls of flour into a pint of milk, adding a salt-spoon of salt.

Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches |Eliza Leslie

I knew a salt-spoon lay once ten years before he was put up—but then, you know, we silver things are worth our money any time.

The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch |Talbot Baines Reed