Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Sliced fruit baked with sugar and spices in a deep dish, with a thick top crust.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A pudding made of bread and apples baked together, usually cooked with molasses.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A deep pie or pudding made of baked apples, or of sliced bread and apples baked together, with no bottom crust.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A
pudding of spiced, slicedapples (or other fruit), sugar and butter, baked with acrumble topping in a deep dish
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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For example, in general when the difference is a biscuit doughbaked on the top of the fruit (cobbler) vs. the biscuit topping being baked on top of the stove (grunt/slump), or, is the biscuit crumbled and pushed down into the fruit or on the bottom of the pan (pandowdy), we foundthe language was universal and have not received any notifications of disagreement as of yet.
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They came with names like buckle and grunt, crumble and cobbler and crisp, brown Betty, sonker, slump, and pandowdy.
Handle with Care JODI PICOULT 2009
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For example, in general when the difference is a biscuit doughbaked on the top of the fruit (cobbler) vs. the biscuit topping being baked on top of the stove ( grunt/slump),or, is the biscuit crumbled and pushed down into the fruit or on the bottom of the pan (pandowdy), we foundthe language was universal and have not received any notifications of disagreement as of yet.
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First thing was an apple pandowdy, so named for its frumpy look.
Archive 2006-09-01 Tripp 2006
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First thing was an apple pandowdy, so named for its frumpy look.
Your tummy says howdy Tripp 2006
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Your favorites will depend on your personal taste preferences and you might call your dish a crisp, crumble, cobbler, grunt, slump, betty or a pandowdy.
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Your favorites will depend on your personal taste preferences and you might call your dish a crisp, crumble, cobbler, grunt, slump, betty or a pandowdy.
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Your favorites will depend on your personal taste preferences and you might call your dish a crisp, crumble, cobbler, grunt, slump, betty or a pandowdy.
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Your favorites will depend on your personal taste preferences and you might call your dish a crisp, crumble, cobbler, grunt, slump, betty or a pandowdy.
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Your favorites will depend on your personal taste preferences and you might call your dish a crisp, crumble, cobbler, grunt, slump, betty or a pandowdy.
treeseed commented on the word pandowdy
Pandowdy - It is a deep-dish dessert that can be made with a variety of fruit, but is most commonly made with apples sweetened with molasses or brown sugar. The topping is a crumbly type of biscuit except the crust is broken up during baking and pushed down into the fruit to allow the juices to come through. Sometimes the crust is on the bottom and the desert is inverted before serving. The exact origin of the name Pandowdy is unknown, but it is thought to refer to the deserts plain or dowdy appearance.
_Whatscookingamerica.net/History
February 6, 2008
sionnach commented on the word pandowdy
See also the entry
"History and Legends of
Cobbler, Crisps, Crumble, Brown Betty, Buckle, Grunts, Slumps, Bird's Nest Pudding, Sonker, & Pandowdy" on that same whatscookingamerica.net site.
July 19, 2009
john commented on the word pandowdy
“A spoon pie, with fruit on the bottom and a rolled crust on top, which is broken up to allow the juices to come through”
Ochef.com, Cobbler, Crisp, Crumble, Grunt, Slump—You Get the Picture
April 6, 2010
qms commented on the word pandowdy
That cowpoke’s so terribly loud he
Quite shook the whole house with his “Howdy!”
From force of his yell
My wife’s soufflée fell.
We served it as apple pandowdy.
November 23, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word pandowdy
Good one, qms. Yeehaw!
November 23, 2018
madmouth commented on the word pandowdy
Good one and yeehaw live in the Platonic cousinhood near each other, prosewise
November 23, 2018
qms commented on the word pandowdy
I just never know which ones are going to tickle people. Thank you both.
November 23, 2018