panada meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

panada

noun

Etymology From Spanish panada, Italian panata (“panada”).

Cooking, Food, Lifestyle A dish made by boiling bread in water and combining the pulp with milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks.

Figuratively, Obsolete Something blandly nourishing; pap.

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:
[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:

A thick paste or sauce made from boiling flour or breadcrumbs.