pandowdy

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"Make us a good old-fashioned deep-dish pandowdy an 'we'll all do our best to eat it!"

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  1. noun Sliced fruit baked with sugar and spices in a deep dish, with a thick top crust.

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  • Return the pandowdy to the oven, and bake about 30 minutes longer, until crust is browned and crisped and filling is bubbly.
  • These issues can be almost totally avoided by opting instead to bake a cobbler, a crisp, a pandowdy, crumble, betty or slump - all wonderful regional appellations for satisfying, easy-to-make-desserts using the fall fruit bounty of apples, pears, late-bearing berries or cranberries.
  • "Make us a good old-fashioned deep-dish pandowdy an 'we'll all do our best to eat it!" —  Homespun Tales
  • "You can have mince-pie, and pandowdy, and plum-pudding." —  Christmas Every Day and Other Stories
  • 'Let me see,' replied Ann. 'It's some time since I eat anything, and I feel pretty hungry: if you will get me a plateful of pandowdy [8] and some ginger snaps, I shall feel thankful.' —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
 

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  1. Perhaps from obsolete dialectal pandoulde, custard : pan1 + dialectal dowl, to mix dough in a hurry (probably variant of dough).
 

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