Here is a link to a recipe for wastel bread. The recipe is adapted from the book The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black which is still available on Amazon for anyone interested

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The Wastel family name was found in the USA, UK, and Scotland  primarily between 1840 and 1920, although you can still find members of that family today.  Not sure if they acquired their family name due to one of their predecessors having the job of making the loaves of wastel bread, similar to how the Miller and Carpenter families ended up with their surnames.   

The Wastel Collection of bags is a family business that designs and produces high quality, handstitched bags and cushions that are made in Germany.  

Oops I neglected to paste the link to the Wastel bread recipe, so here it is now. https://groups.io/g/JosCountryKitchen/topic/medieval_wastel_bread/1942851

6 hours ago, drpaladin said:

Wastel is taken from French.

There have been many spelling variations; wastell, wastle, wostle, wesstall,  wassell, and wassel.

I'm not surprised that wastel is taken from French. The French have a very proud tradition in bread making and after 1066 that would have influenced English bread making.