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
"Oi swear be all the saints the baste did spake!"
From Frank Merriwell's Backers The Pride of His Friends by Standish, Burt L.
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
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
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
I considered basting the tomatoes in butter and stewing them down with miso until soft and glossy.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
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
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
The prince presumably took a break from basting to drop to a knee.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 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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