Cookery. Obs. Also sore, sorry, surre. [app. a. OF. soré, pa. pple. of sorer to redden, f. sore SORE a.2] A dish made with chopped eels (or other fish, etc.) spiced and colored. White sorré = blanch-de-sore (see BLAUNDSORE).
c. 1430. Two Cookery-bks., 25. Sore Sengle.—Take Elys or Gurnard,… take Safroun, & caste þer-to,… take poudere Gyngere, Canelle [etc.].
c. 1440. Anc. Cookery, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 446. Eles in Sorry. Take eles and cut hom on culpons,… colour hit withe saunders. Ibid., 467. Eles in Surre.
a. 1450. Tourn. Tottenham, The Feest vii. (Hazlitt E. P. P. III. 95). Blobsterdis in white sorre, Was of a nobull curry.
