[Sca-cooks] Dating "Remove"

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings.  Bear found: 
>The OED shows the first written usage as Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the
>English Language 4 ed. (1773).

C. Anne Wilson (_The Appetite and the Eye_, Edinburgh University Press,
1991 pp. 109-112) write: "The second edition of Henry Howard's _England's
Newest Way in All Sorts of Cookery, Pastry, and All Pickles that are Fit to
be Used_, published in 1708...(includes) the recently adopted usage of the
'remove' (a dish to be succeeded by another).  The circle at the head of
the first-course table is inscribed: 'A pottage, for a remove Westphalia
ham and chickens'.  The pottage (very soon to be replaced on the
diagrammatic table-settings by one of the new thinner soups) was served out
to everyone present, and its large serving-bowl or tureen was then removed.
In its place was set the item of meat or fish written in the lower half of
the circle.  The soup and its 'remove' or replacement marked the first step
towards a different division of the courses which led eventually, after the
coming of Russian service early in the nineteenth century, to the usual
sequence of courses at today's formal dinners."

It would seem that the OED is off by about 75 years since the word is
printed on the page reproduced in Wilson's book.  Well, technically, the
page that is reproduced is from the _third_ edition, 1710, but still before
1773.

Alys Katharine, who attended a local event's feast last night where the
courses were printed as "removes".  Ick!  :-)