Schnitz(el) (1789)

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TRAVELS IN FRANCE
DURING THE YEARS 1787, 1788 & 1789
by Arthur Young
edited by Constantia Maxwell
Cambridge at the University Press
1929

   OED cites this book 241 times, yet still misses "schnitz" and other items.

Pg. 16 (May 31, 1787):  The poor people, who cultivate the soil here, are _metayers_, that is, men who hire the land without ability to stock it; the proprietor is forced to provide cattle and seed, and he and his tenant divide the produce; a miserable system, that perpetuates poverty and excludes instruction.
(OED has 1776, then 1856 for "metayer"--ed.)

Pg. 90 (Oct. 1787):  Dine at the Invalides, with Mons. Parmentier, the celebrated author of many economical works, particularly on the _boulangerie_ of France.
(OED doesn't consider "boulangerie"--a French bakery--as English--ed.)

Pg. 183 (July 22, 1789):  At Strabourg, and the country I passed, the lower ranks of women wear their hair in a _toupet_ in front, (Pg. 184--ed.) and behind into a circular plait, three inches thick, and is most curiously contrived to convince one thatthey rarely pass a comb through it.
(OED has 1729, then 1818 for "toupee"/"toupet"--ed.)

Pg. 184 (July 22, 1789):  Cookery also German; _Schnitz_ is a dish of bacon and fried pears; has the appearance of a mess for the devil; but I was surprised, on tasting, to find it better than passable.
(OED has 1854 for"schnitzel"--ed.)

Pg. 189:  At this eventful moment, with no license, nor even the least restraint on the press, not one paper established at Paris for circulation in the provinces, with the necessary steps taken by _affiche_, or placard, to inform the people in all the towns of its establishment.
(OED has 1818 for "affiche"--ed.)

Pg. 263 (1790):  The ENglish dinner, of a joint of meat and a pudding, as it is called, or _pot luck_, with a neighbour, is bad luck in England; the same fortune in France gives, by means of cookery only, at least four dishes to one among us, and spreads a small table incomparably better.

Pg. 296:  V. METAYERS (METAYAGE)..._metayer labour...
Pg. 297:  ...metayage system...
(The revised OED has 1877 for "metayage system."  Who read this book??--ed.)