COMMON SERVING PIECES

The lengths in inches are average lengths. The items by different manufacturers and different patterns vary greatly. When you are trying to locate matching items for your pattern always measure the length in inches to the nearest eight of an inch.

• Berry Spoon
  8" to 11"
  These are large serving spoons. They are somewhat bigger than tablespoons. The edge will be wavy (or scalloped). Some use this term interchangeably with "Casserole" spoon.

• Carving Set - 2 piece sets
  8" to 12"
  Two piece carving sets contain: a carving knife and a two pronged carving fork.

• Carving Set - 3 piece sets
  8" to 12"
  Three piece carving sets contain: a carving knife, a two pronged carving fork, and a sharpening steel.

• Cake Knife
  This is a long knife for cutting and serving cake. Cake knives usually have wide, serrated blades.

• Casserole Spoon (Solid or Pierced)
  8" to 11" 
  These are large serving spoons. They are somewhat bigger than tablespoons. Some use this term interchangeably with "Berry" spoon.

• Cream Ladle
  5" to 6"
  A small sized ladle for serving sauces. "Cream ladles" have appeared which were originally bouillon spoons.

• Gravy Ladle
  7" to 9"
  A medium sized ladle for serving gravy or other sauces.

• Master Butter Server
  6" to 8"
  This is a small wide bladed knife for serving butter from the butter dish. It often had a slightly angled blade. It can be hollow handled or flat handled.

• Pie / Cake Server
  A pie wedge shaped serving tool. It is used to lift a slice of pie. A Pie/Cake server usually has a serrated or tapered edge for cutting and lifting cakes and pie wedges.

• Salad Set - 2 Pieces
  This is a set containing: a large spoon and a large fork for serving salad.

• Serving Fork / Cold Meat Fork
  This is a large fork. The tines may have fancy piercing or t-bars.

• Sugar Shell
  A spoon that is about the same length as a teaspoon. It will have a rounder (perhaps deeper) bowl than a teaspoon. It may have somewhat scalloped edges.

• Sugar Sifter
  A sugar spoon that has a pierced bottom for sifting sugar (to remove the lumps that are less common today). If the sifter does not differ from a sugar shell in any way other than that it is pierced, consider the possibility that it is a modified item.

• Sugar Tongs
  These small tongs are used to pick up cubes of sugar.

• Tablespoon (solid)
  The tablespoon is a larger version of the place spoon for serving food.

• Tablespoon (pierced)
  A tablespoon that has holes in it to allow liquids to run off before serving the food.