Savouries.
Savouries are handed round with the cheese course. These are eaten with a fork. Even a cheese fondu is eaten with a fork, though the cook occasionally fails to bring it to the requisite firmness of consistency, in which case it looks more suited to a spoon; but the fork must do.
Celery.
Celery is eaten with the fingers, like asparagus.
Asparagus.
This last-named, by the way, if too much cooked, and consequently very soft and unmanageable, may be eaten with the fork, but must not be touched with the knife. And again, should asparagus be served with the melted butter thrown over it, it must be eaten with a fork. It very seldom is so served, but I have met with this mode in some houses.
Cheese ramequins are eaten with the fingers.
Cheese, how served.
Cheese itself is handed round on a dish or plate with the pieces cut ready to one’s hand.
Cheese, how eaten.