About Pandowdy

Pandowdy is American, not English—no-frills Yankee fare. It consists of a dish of fruit (usually apples), sweetened with molasses or maple syrup, topped with a pastry crust (or bread dough) and baked until the dough starts to brown. The pastry is then cut up into squares (“dowdied”) and pressed back down into the fruit. The dish is returned to the oven, and everything finishes baking together, the fruit juices thoroughly saturating the dough.