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The Old English pattern is one of the oldest surviving English flatware patterns, emerging in the 1750s to 1760s as the plain, understated successor to the earlier Hanoverian pattern. Where Hanoverian spoons turn their terminal upward and were laid bowl down in the French manner, Old English spoons turn down and are laid bowl up, and the design proved durable enough to still be in production today. A basting spoon is the largest of the serving spoons, generally over 30cm long with a deep, elongated bowl, used in the kitchen for spooning fat and juices over roasting meat and at table for serving gravy or stuffing.