v. Obs. Also 4 endorre, 5–6 endour. [a. OF. endore-r to gild.] To cover with a yellow glaze of yolk of egg, saffron, etc.
Hence Endored ppl. a., Endoring vbl. sb., concr. a glaze of yolk of egg, etc.
c. 1390[?]. Form of Cury (1780), 106. Put yt on a broche and rost yt and endorre yt wyth ȝolkys of eyryn.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 199. Ffesauntez enflureschit in flammande silver With darielles endordide, and daynteez ynewe.
c. 1420. Anturs of Arth., xxxvi. Ryche daintes en-doret, in dysshes bi-dene.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 37. Endore hit wit ȝolkes of egges then.
c. 1450. 15th C. Cookery Bks., 98. Endore the coffyn withoute with saffron & almond mylke.
c. 1450. Noble Bk. Cookry (Napier, 1882), 66. When the endoringe is stiff let them rost no more.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., 90. Here is to recorde the leg of a goys, With chekyns endorde, pork, partryk, toroys.
1513. Bk. Keruynge, in Babees Bk., 278. Chekyns or endoured pygyons.
