[Sca-cooks] Removes, Again: Was Period Pretzels, yet again...
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Mon Feb 18 09:33:24 PST 2013
Fair enough.
Actually, new or not, I COULD have known had I done what I usually do:
checked the archives. Lazy of me not to have this time.
For anyone who didn't check the period links I provided, they too mention
the concept in context. But certainly from everything I know it's an
eighteenth century, not medieval, term.
I'm still bemused by the identity of the term with the French term for
dessert, though that appears to be coincidence. I know of exactly one
reference to "desserte" in our period; otherwise the term, until the eighteenth
century, seemed to be "exit" (issu) or "fruit", after the meal proper had been
"removed".
Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com
Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste Le Grand d'Aussy:
Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France
In a message dated 2/18/2013 4:23:29 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
alysk at ix.netcom.com writes:
I beg to quibble about "remove" being used for a course. It was only
one dish of a course.
....
Since you recently joined the list, you couldn't be aware that we just
came through another "Of course, it's 'course'! Remove 'remove'!"
debates.
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