baste
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Baste every 25 to 40 minutes depending upon the turkeys total roasting time, aim to baste four to five times over the entire roasting time for your particular bird.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
You baste every 30 minutes before removing the cheesecloth to cook uncovered to burnish the skin.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Pour the remaining 2 tablespoons lime juice into the pan and baste the fillets once or twice more.
From Washington Times ● May 19, 2023
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
“Let the baste out, can’t ye?” he at length said to Kelly.
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
His wife had already basted the family turkey the night before and now she was cracking 180 eggs with a smile and wearing plastic gloves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 27, 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
As a child, Yamamoto said he sometimes snacked on soy-sauce basted grasshoppers.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2023
He started a ghost kitchen in Queens called Pecking House based on five-spice-seasoned fried chicken generously basted with Tianjin chile oil — ingredients in his family’s Chinese restaurant pantry.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2023
A short time after she pursued—“I seed you go out with the master, but I didn’t know you were gone to church to be wed;” and she basted away.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
Do note that basting can result in less crispy skin.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
Roast for two hours, basting one to two times with more butter, before flipping breast side up to finish.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Then we take a two-step approach to ensure it stays moist, basting it in butter as it cooks and then serving it with a luscious but bright sauce.
From Washington Times ● May 19, 2023
Some grammarians use the analogy of stitching: punctuation as the basting that holds the fabric of language in shape.
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
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