v. Sc. Also 5–6 flawme, 6 flame, 6, 8 flamm. [a. F. flambe-r to singe; originally a var. of flam(m)er to FLAME.] trans. To baste (‘with flaming lard,’ Jam.).
c. 1440. Anc. Cookery, in Househ. Ord. (1790), 450. Turtelettys of Fruture. Take fygges, and grinde hom small, and do therto pouder of clowes, and of pepur, and sugur, and saffron, and close hom in foyles of dogh, and frie hom, and flawme hom with honey, and serve hit forthe.
a. 1550[?]. Freiris of Berwik, 135, in Dunbar’s Poems (1893), 289.
| And fatt cunyngis to a fyre did scho lay, | |
| Syne bad the Madin, in all the haist scho may, | |
| To flawme, and turne, and rost thame tenderly. |
c. 1568. Lauder, Godlie Tractate, 460. Euerie fatt Souch fedis and flammis ane vther!
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xiii. The iron ladle, with which she had just been flambing (Anglicè, basting) the roast of mutton.
Proverb.
1721. J. Kelly, Scot. Prov., 93. Every Man flamms [note basteth] the fat Sow’s Arse. They will be sure to get most Gifts that least want them.
