[Sca-cooks] Removes, Again: Was Period Pretzels, yet again...

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

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.