pandowdy U.S.
(pænˈdaʊdɪ)
[Of obscure origin; perh. a compound of pan n.1 Halliwell cites from Bp. Kennett's MS. pandoulde a custard (Somerset); but this is now unknown in Eng. dialects.]
A kind of apple pudding, variously seasoned, but usually with molasses, and baked in a deep dish with or without a crust.
| 1846 Worcester, Pandowdy, food made of bread and apples baked together. 1852 Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. xxiv, Hollingsworth [would] fill my plate from the great dish of pandowdy. 1893 Leland Mem. I. 74 Pan-dowdy—a kind of coarse and broken up apple-pie. |