baste
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Cook and baste the fish until the thickest parts reach 115°F to 120°F, or are nearly opaque when cut into, 2 to 3 minutes.
From Washington Times ● May 19, 2023
Be sure to baste the fish with this liquid during cooking and just before serving.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
I have a section on using different flavored butters to baste and add flavor, so add garlic butter or maple butter to something like a corn muffin or a cornbread.
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2022
To add to the flavour, Taylor’s preferred liquid to baste the turkey with is coffee, butter and maple syrup.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022
Before taking up, dredge with flour, and baste two or three times with melted butter.
From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book by Myrtle Reed
When it comes to flavoring and seasoning a steak, I like keeping it minimalist: heavily seasoned with salt and then simply basted with rosemary, garlic and butter.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2025
The programme title is a play on Lord Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera, basted on the novel by Gaston Leroux.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025
It was the second year in a row that Langford hit a game-winning homer in the championship game, having basted a two-run shot in the top of the eighth inning last spring against the Highlanders.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
As a child, Yamamoto said he sometimes snacked on soy-sauce basted grasshoppers.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2023
I cooked lunch for myself—pork and beans, or chicken basted in onions and orange juice, or on days when I was feeling lazy, soup from a can—and sat at the table alone eating it.
From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez
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In August 2023, the state blamed another botched satellite launch on an error in the emergency basting system, but said it was "not a big issue".
From BBC ● May 21, 2025
My method was always bringing the steak to room temperature, salting it heavily, then cooking it in a cast-iron pan that was scorchingly hot before basting with butter, garlic thyme and rosemary.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2024
We layer on the flavors - first as a quick marinade for the chicken, then as a basting sauce, and finally as a finishing sauce.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Uncover the ribs, and bake for 10 minutes more, basting 3 or 4 times with the pan juices until the ribs are well-glazed and browned.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 29, 2022
The next few hours are spent doing tasks no one else wants to do—snipping stitches, basting, sweeping up, collecting pins and putting them in pincushions.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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