\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.]
      Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread.  --Chaucer.
      The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used
      at the tables of the highest nobility.   --Sir W.
                                               Scott.