Editing Teaspoon (section)

===Dry ingredients===
For dry granular or powdered ingredients (e.g., [[salt]], [[flour]], [[spices]], and especially beverages involving [[tea]] and [[sugar]]),<ref>{{cite book |last=Souter |first=Keith |author-link= |date=2013 |title=The Tea Cyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yluCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT92 |publisher=Skyhorse Publishing |page= 92|isbn=9781628735482}}</ref> a recipe may call for  the spoon to be filled in a certain way that changes the volume of the ingredient. As with much of cooking, these measures are by their nature inexact. This can be exacerbated here by failing to use a real teaspoon: a teaspoon's greater area supports considerably more to be heaped above it than a deeper hemispherical measuring spoon, so if using a measuring spoon, one will typically use less than called for by the recipe. The definitions of "spoonful" vary, in particular, in a typical American recipe a "spoon" without clarification stands for a "level" spoon (the one with no ingredient showing above the rim of the spoon bowl), while a British cookbook would mean a "round" or "heaped" spoon, with the ingredient peaking above the rim:{{sfn|Grigson|2007|p=xviii}} 
* A ''scant'' teaspoon is one which has been filled to slightly less than level.{{sfn|Baggett|2012}}
* A ''level'' teaspoon, which is the default ''teaspoon'' if no adjective is given, refers to an approximately leveled filling of the spoon, producing the same volume as for liquids. The excess of ingredient can be scraped off by a knife.{{sfn|BBC|1945}}
* A ''rounded'' teaspoon is roughly symmetrical with as much ingredient above the rim as is in the spoon below the rim, giving a measure roughly equivalent to two level teaspoons.{{sfn|BBC|1945}}
* A ''heaping'' (North American English) or ''heaped'' (UK English) teaspoon is a larger inexact measure consisting of the amount obtained by scooping the dry ingredient up as high as possible to balance on a spoon. This quantity can vary considerably, up to 5 amounts of ingredient in the level spoon.{{sfn|BBC|1945}} Many cookbooks treat heaped and rounded spoons interchangeably.{{sfn|Collister|2012}}{{sfn|Henderson|Gellatly|2008}}
Lincoln used the spoon measure without adjectives to define either a rounded one (for flour and sugar) or a level one (for salt and spices).{{sfn|Lincoln|1903|p=24}}