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pandowdy

pandowdy

1 9.9
A deep dish dessert of sweet fruit with a crust broken during baking
  • noun
  • /ˈpændaʊdi/
  • US
: pandowdy
  • She baked a traditional pandowdy using tart apples and a buttery crust.

Examples

  • The recipe for pandowdy calls for breaking the crust over the sweetened fruit before serving.

  • Strudels, scones, even apple pandowdy.

    High School Musical (2006)

  • For dessert, we enjoyed a warm apple pandowdy topped with vanilla ice cream.

Synonyms

deep-dish pie
vspandowdy
1 2.7

A pie with a deep layer of fruit filling and a top crust

breaks the pastry crust during baking so it mixes with the fruit

How Rich

pandowdy
  • US
1 9.9
cobbler
  • US
30 4.0
pie
878 1.0
tart
77 1.6

Surface Forms

pandowdy singular
pandowdies plural

Morphology

pandowdy = pan + dowdy (semi-transparent) = pan + dowdy

The components 'pan' and 'dowdy' are visible, but the specific culinary sense (a particular deep-dish fruit dessert) is a regional dish name and is not fully predictable from the parts.

Etymology

Pandowdy probably comes from the simple words pan ('a cooking pan') and dowdy ('old-fashioned' or 'plain'), a helpful way to remember a humble, homey dessert. That's why a pandowdy is a deep-dish fruit dessert baked in a pan with a rough crust that is often broken up while it cooks.