baste
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Pour the remaining 2 tablespoons lime juice into the pan and baste the fillets once or twice more.
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
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
The roast will glow, burnished and blazing, as I open the oven door to baste it with preserves and turn the glowing globes of potato in their spitting fat.
From Salon ● Nov. 24, 2022
Well, poor baste, sorr, it’s in my charge she has been all the way, and she’s had lashin’s to ate and to drink.
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables
The signature dish, made with sharp, slow-melting Kolot cheese, comes in a crust that’s been liberally basted with butter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
Not so readily, however: The researchers cut a black spatula into small pieces and basted them in 320-degree cooking oil for 15 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
As a child, Yamamoto said he sometimes snacked on soy-sauce basted grasshoppers.
From Reuters ● Jul. 26, 2023
Mr. Fenchel sat all day on his table and he didn’t have anything to do, so he basted and ripped and sewed and ripped on the same piece of cloth over and over.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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
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
I guess she did, because she finally pushed the basting pan aside and went to the sink to wash her hands.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
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