Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wastel

Wastel , noun

[Old French wastel, gastel, French gâteau, Late Latin wastellus, from Middle High German wastel a kind of bread; compare Old High German & Anglo-Saxon wist food.]

A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. [Obsolete]
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