wastel bread

wastel bread
Wastel Was"tel, n. [OF. wastel, gastel, F. g[^a]teau, LL. wastellus, fr. MHG. wastel a kind of bread; cf. OHG. & AS. wist food.] A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also {wastel bread}, and {wastel cake}. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]


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  • Wastel — Bread made from the finest flour. There were three degrees or qualities of wheat, best, second, and third. Wastel has nothing to do with waste. [< OldFr. guastel] Cf. Assize; Pillory; Simnel bread; Torteau …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

  • wastel — /wostsl/ A standard of quality of bread, made of the finest white flour. Cocket bread was slightly inferior in quality. The statute of 1266 mentions seven kinds of bread …   Black's law dictionary

  • Simnel bread — Bread made with finest flour. There were two kinds of simnel, a superior or royal simnel and a salt simnel. Such breads were also quite large. A superior simnel would feed four men; a salt only two men. A loaf was intended for one man, as part of …   Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases

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