Middle English Dictionary Entry
endōren v.
Entry Info
| Forms | endōren v. |
| Etymology | OF endorer gild, glaze. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. doren.
1.
Cook. To cover or coat (a roast or other dish) with a glaze (usually made from the yolks of eggs).
Associated quotations
- 1381 Pegge Cook.Recipes (Dc 257)106 : Mak pelotys of the Buf..and rost yt and endorre yt wyth ȝolkys of eyryn.
- (a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)84 : Take Fyges iquarterid, Raysons, hool dates and Almandes hoole..and endore hem as pomme dorryes.
- c1450(1429) Lydg.Hen.VI Coron.Banquet (Gldh 3313)p.153 : Chekyns endored.
- c1440(a1400) Awntyrs Arth.(Thrn)459 : Riche daynteths endorrede [vr. endoret].
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)199 : With dariells endordide.
- c1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(2) (Hrl 4016)98 : Endore the coffyn withoute with saffron & almond mylke.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)36 : Endore them yallowe or grene.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)36 : Chekyns endort.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)120 : Endore it with yolks of eggs and ye may make it grene or red with juce of erbes.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Feast Tott.(Cmb Ff.5.48)95/284 : Ther was castrell in cambys And capulls in cullys With blandamets in dorde.
Note: Quot. postdates word.
Note: New form: P.ppl. indorde.
Note: The list of variant spellings in the form section is incomplete and needs revision to accord with standards of later volumes of the MED. Provisional revised form section (including supplement form): Also endor(r)e; p.ppl. endored, etc. & endorrede, endor(e)t & indorde.--notes per MLL