brown betty

American  

noun

1. a baked dessert made of apples or other fruit, breadcrumbs, sugar, butter, spice, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of brown betty

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

Example Sentences

A more elevated version of both desserts is the traditional Brown Betty, Baldwin suggests.

From Salon

One person’s crisp is another’s brown betty; a cobbler might be called a buckle by someone else, but there are slight differences.

From Washington Post

Also running for Queens district attorney are Melinda Katz, the Queens borough president; Greg Lasak, a former judge who also worked as a senior prosecutor under Mr. Brown; Betty Lugo, a lawyer; Rory Lancman, a councilman from Queens; Jose Nieves, who worked in the New York attorney general’s office as a deputy chief in the special investigations and prosecutions unit; and Mina Malik, a former prosecutor in Queens and Brooklyn and a deputy attorney general in the District of Columbia.

From New York Times

We trooped downstairs to bowls of dangerously hot Apple Brown Betty that seared the mouth.

From Literature

The makeshift table was soon overflowing with food—oatmeal cookies, cheese grits, hot biscuits and honey, a sweet potato pie, Apple Brown Betty, black-eyed peas, fried chicken, corn pudding, pulled pork, and pickled pigs’ feet.

From Literature