apple pandowdy

[ ap-uhl pan-dou-dee ]

noun

, Chiefly New England.

1. a deep-dish apple pie or cobbler, usually sweetened with molasses.

Word History and Origins

Origin of apple pandowdy¹

An Americanism dating back to 1820–30

Example Sentences

There's also the apple pandowdy, an old-fashioned delight that's akin to a haphazard and partially baked pie.

From Salon

In due time, the fading flowers turn into apples, offering a thousand fulfillments: apple pie, apple cake, applesauce, apple cider, apple butter, apple jelly, apple dumplings, apple tarts, apple pandowdy.

From Time Magazine Archive

What is shoofly pie and apple pandowdy?''

From Time Magazine Archive

He gazed with bewilderment at the list of dinner dishes tended him; bear's meat, he felt, canvas back duck or terrapin, was not a diet proper to seven; but he solved the perplexity by ordering snipe, rolled and sugared cakes filled with whipped cream and preserved strawberries, and a deep apple pandowdy.

From Project Gutenberg

The after part of the dinner would be a dish of baked apples with warm gingerbread, or sometimes a deep apple pandowdy, or the baked Indian pudding that was a syrupy, fragrant concoction made of corn meal and butter and molasses baked patiently in the oven for hours.

From Project Gutenberg