Sew with loose stitches

Usage examples of baste.

For the meat eaters, a number of giant baloneys were set to roasting whole on spits, to be turned and attentively basted with a grape-jelly glaze by once-quarrelsome kitchen staff while others made croutons from old bread, bustling about while the spinach thawed, singing along with the radio, which someone had mercifully re-tuned to a rock and roll station.

Again, she had assessed Occula as a girl of exceptional style, with far more than the kind of short-term basting appeal of a beauty like Meris, and she did not mean to let her attraction burn up and blaze out like a fire-festival bonfire.

The prospect of an afternoon spent with a warm, good-humored admirer, a sound basting or two and a nice, fat lygol to take home afterwards, was by no means unpleasant.

Well, that explained a whole basting lot, as Occula would no doubt have remarked.

They boast and shout and sing and drink themselves silly and naturally they generally get to basting the girls as well.

And despiteor perhaps because ofhis ready opportunities for pleasure elsewhere, these had set up in him a relentless craving which her subsequent renown and exaltation had only served to inflame, for they had made him suppose the chance of actually basting her again to be gone for ever.

Maia, for her part, was more than glad of a friend who, unlike the shearnas, was not for ever concerned with men, basting and the material advantages to be gained therefrom.

Now go and fetch the saiyett the men she asked you for, and basting quickly, too!

Pour a little boiling water into the pan and bake slowly, basting as required.

Add a little boiling water and bake in a very hot oven, basting as required.

Dot with butter and bake in a moderate oven for forty minutes, basting freely.

Dot the fish with butter, cover with buttered paper, and bake for forty-five minutes, basting as required.

Lay on thin slices of salt pork and bake, basting frequently with the fat.

Clean a large bluefish, put into a baking-pan, pour over it a cupful of boiling salted water, cover and bake for an hour, basting frequently.

Bake in a pan with a cupful of hot water and a tablespoonful of butter, basting frequently.