Plate Liners
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Plate Liners
Setting the diner table, once the chairs are in their positions, I put a place-plate at the spot where the guest's food shall be served. These place-plates are also known as plate-liners, place-setting-liners or show-plates and they are nothing else but large platters. Those come in many shapes and sizes. Some are made from porcelain, others are silver or silver plate. Many plate-liners in today's use are brass and copper others are pewter. I have no preference between the large selection of plate-liners. However, I find that the type which is large enough to hold all plate sizes - used during dinner - is the most practical. My logic for the large plate-liner is: The big ones can be put on the table when I set the table without the need to be removed till after the main course.
I think a plate-liner is to mark the guest's seat and to provide a designated surface onto which I place the plates and food served to the guest. But I know such is not always the case. For many a times the plate-liner is in all actuality a precious expensive piece of art. Therefore as soon as the guest is seated these platters are removed.
helmut schonwalder 12-14-2002
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