The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wastel \Was"tel\, n. [OF. wastel, gastel, F. g[^a]teau, LL. wastellus, fr. MHG. wastel a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS. wist food.] A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. [Obs.]
Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread.
--Chaucer.
The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used
at the tables of the highest nobility.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A kind of fine white bread or cake.
Usage examples of "wastel".
Matilda pulled herself up on the pillows and allowed the woman to feed her broken pieces of the fine wastel bread.
Tending her people, nourishing, guiding, Sharing the wastel and honeydew, she.
It was my office to see that all were well supplied with the drinks they preferred, while the waiting maids were handing the simnel and wastel cakes and spiced bread.
The air was filled with the smell of roasting hazelnuts and baking wastel cakes and simmel bread.