Definition of Tea ball

1. Noun. A kitchen utensil consisting of a perforated metal ball for making tea.

Generic synonyms: Kitchen Utensil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tea Ball

tea-bags
tea-cosy
tea-leaf
tea-strainer
tea-time
tea-times
tea-towel
tea-urn
tea-urns
tea and toaster
tea and toasters
tea bag
tea bagged
tea bagging
tea bags
tea ball (current term)
tea biscuit
tea bread
tea break
tea caddies
tea caddy
tea cart
tea carts
tea ceremonies
tea ceremony
tea chest
tea cloth
tea cosey
tea cosies
tea cosy

Literary usage of Tea ball

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cooking for Two: A Handbook for Young Housekeepers by Hill, Janet McKenzie (1909)
"Perhaps, for two, a silver tea ball is quite as desirable for tea making as a teapot. STEEPING THE TEA Let the cups and tea-ball be made hot in the warming ..."

2. Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of how to Select, Prepare by Janet McKenzie Hill (1902)
"THE tea ball When tea is to be made for the afternoon caller a cup or two at a time, the silver tea-ball, or the later teaspoon, which is used in the same ..."

3. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1907)
"THE TEAPOT AND tea ball The pot in which tea is steeped deserves ... STEEPING THE TEA Let the cups and tea ball be made hot in the warming oven, ..."

4. When Mother Lets Us Cook: A Book of Simple Receipts for Little Folk, with by Constance Johnson (1908)
"You can make very good tea by using a tea- ball. Put your tea into the tea-ball and put the tea-ball into the individual cups; pour the boiling water over ..."

5. Cooking for Profit: Catering and Food Service Management by Alice Bradley (1922)
"Where only I or 2 cups of tea are to be made at a time, a tea ball or perforated double teaspoon half full of tea may be used. Place in the cup, ..."

6. A Handbook of Invalid Cooking for the Use of Nurses in Training-schools by Mary A. Boland (1893)
"Then empty it, put the teaspoon of tea into a tea-ball, place it in the hot cup, and pour on the boiling water slowly until it is full, leaving the tea-ball ..."

7. EMF Electrical Year Book by Electrical Trade Publishing Company (1921)
"The tea Is ed in a sieve-like tea ball supported chain through the cover. After the t and the tea ball lowered into the is brought to boiling the current is ..."

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