noun
- A deep-dish dessert consisting of spiced fruit (usually apples) baked with a thick biscuit or pastry topping.
Usage: Plural form of pandowdy; Regional American dish, particularly associated with New England; Often served warm with whipped cream or ice cream
Examples
- The bakery sold several warm pandowdies on cold autumn afternoons.
- Grandma's pandowdies were famous at the county fair, winning blue ribbons year after year.
- We ordered two pandowdies for dessert, one with apples and one with peaches.
- The recipe for pandowdies has been passed down through generations in her family.
- Pandowdies are best enjoyed fresh from the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
- The restaurant's menu featured several traditional New England pandowdies.