Crossword clues for basted
basted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Baste \Baste\ (b[=a]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Basted; p. pr. & vb. n. Basting.] [Cf. Icel. beysta to strike, powder; Sw. basa to beat with a rod: perh. akin to E. beat.]
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To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
One man was basted by the keeper for carrying some people over on his back through the waters.
--Pepys. (Cookery) To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
To mark with tar, as sheep. [Prov. Eng.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: baste)
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.