panada

plural panadas · alternative panade · alternative panado

1. countableuncountablecookingA dish made by boiling bread in water and combining the pulp with milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks.First known use 16th c.
2. countablefigurativelyobsoleteuncountableSomething blandly nourishing; pap.First known use 18th–19th c.

   [They] swallow, without flinching, all the theological panada with which she may think fit to cram them.

   1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, section 12.12

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   He paid his Debts, call'd in some single Acquaintance, told him he was dying & drove away that Panada Conversation which Friends think proper to administer at Sick Bed-Sides, with becoming Steadiness.

   1789 May 8, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana

3. countableuncountableA thick paste or sauce made from boiling flour or breadcrumbs.First known use 19th c.