Food made of bread and apples baked together. (Worcester.)

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1846.  Such glowing encomiums on pandowdy and pumpkin-pie! Such affectionate mention of clam-chowder, roast-veal, and baked beans! no wonder the gathering is rapidly dispersed.—Yale Lit. Mag., xi. 235 (April).

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1847.  

        Oh! those were joyous olden times,
  The times of which we ’ve read,
Of good old-fashioned pandowdy,
  Of rye-and-Indian bread!
‘The Good Old Times,’ Knick. Mag., xxix. 498 (June).    

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1852.  [He would] fill my plate from the great dish of pandowdy.—Hawthorne, ‘Blithedale Romance,’ xxiv. (N.E.D.)

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1856.  [The Pandowdy Band at Bowdoin College, described as one of the discordant kind].—Hall, ‘College Words,’ p. 341–2.

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