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

David Walddon david at vastrepast.com
Mon Oct 11 15:24:30 PDT 2010


I always blame it on you! :)
Just like the honey butter!
Eduardo


On 10/11/10 1:00 PM, "David Friedman" <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com> wrote:

> 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?





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