noun
- a deep-dish apple dessert with a thick crust that is broken up and mixed with the fruit during baking
Usage: American regional
Examples
- Grandma’s apple pandowdy was the highlight of our Thanksgiving dinner.
- The recipe called for tart apples and a simple biscuit topping for the pandowdy.
- She served the warm pandowdy with vanilla ice cream.
- The pandowdy’s broken crust gave it a rustic, homemade appearance.
- New England diners often feature traditional pandowdy on their dessert menus.
- The baker stirred the crust into the apples halfway through cooking the pandowdy.