[Sca-cooks] Remove - no documentation

Elise Fleming alysk at ix.netcom.com
Tue Oct 12 12:13:31 PDT 2010


Devra wrote:

 >Was there not some indication that, at Regency and Victorian dinners, 
 >the table would be set, and after, say, the soup had been served, it 
 >was 'removed' with another dish taking its place on the table?  In her 
 >novels, Georgette Heyer often makes reference to dishes 'removed with 
 >xxx' filling up the space.

That was my point.  I'm betting that some historical enthusiast took 
information from something that is more recent and decided that it 
sounded more medieval to use that term.

Alys K.
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Elise Fleming
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