[Sca-cooks] Where does the "remove" error come from?

[David Friedman]

I was recently in a Usenet exchange in which a U.K. reenactor 
described a feast reenactment, set in 1500, as having fifteen 
removes. It isn't yet clear whether the term was his or was from 
whomever organized the reenactment, nor whether he meant fifteen 
courses, which would be a second error.

But that got me curious. Where did the idea that "remove" is the 
period term for "course" originate? Was it in the SCA? In historical 
novels read by people in the SCA? Somewhere else?
-- 
David Friedman
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