baste
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You baste every 30 minutes before removing the cheesecloth to cook uncovered to burnish the skin.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2023
Street vendors across East Asia scrunch small pieces of meat onto skewers and baste them over hot coals with a sweet and savory sauce.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 11, 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
Add the butter, chorizo, chives, parsley and dill, and as the butter starts to foam, baste the scallops for about 30 seconds.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 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
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
The egg, slid into a smoking-hot oiled skillet then basted with said fat until done, is just an added flex, as in: "Behold my mastery of the sear."
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2023
There were arches of spun sugar, towers of pastry, basted birds posed for flight.
From "The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge" by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
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
How often should I be basting my bird?
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2024
But before you start basting the turkey and preparing the stuffing, it’s good to get your kitchen in as good a shape as possible.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 14, 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
Jhiqui roasted the meat with sweet- grass and firepods, basting it with honey as it cooked, and there were melons and pomegranates and plums and some queer eastern fruit Dany did not know.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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