Moistened, as a roast

Usage examples of basted.

Blessing decided to sit on the table, right in the center, where she could command the servants as they brought in a hearty meal of chicken basted in mustard and parsley, a juicy broth, leeks cooked in butter, slices of veal with a mint sauce spooned over it, and honey dumplings.

Servants hurried in with a clear broth, followed by roasted game hens basted in mint sauce.

He understood the solemn feast laid out that night: haunches of pork basted in fat and served with a sauce of cream and crushed juniper berries, roast goose garnished with watercress, fish soup, hazelnut porridge, a stew of morels, and mead flavored with cranberries and bog myrtle.

Nerulf turned the spit and from time to time basted " the meat with oil and drippings.

He basted a lamb where it turned on a spit, shook up a pan of pigeons and quails, swung other pots this way and that on their pot-hooks, so that they might receive the proper heat.

Nerulf turned the spit and from time to time basted “ the meat with oil and drippings.

Two eggs, eyes-up and gently basted, resting on medium-rare steak so tender it would cut with a fork—"Eggs on Horseback".

Hunter had clucked over me, lent me a comb, and given me breakfast: basted fried eggs, home-cured bacon thick and fat, corn bread, butter, sorghum, milk, coffee made in a pot and settled with an eggshell—and to appreciate in fullness Mrs.