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Panettone and Beyond

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Italy’s 6 Sweet Christmas Breads: Panettone and Beyond

Pandoro: This sweet Christmas bread from Verona is star-shaped and dusted with powdered sugar (some say to make it look like the nearby mountains). The name pan d’oro means “bread of gold,” and since white bread cost a lot in the Middle Ages and was consumed only by the wealthy, that’s exactly what this would have seemed like to the Veronese families who pinched pennies to enjoy this treat once a year! Today, you’ll sometimes see a hole cut in pandoro and filled with chantilly cream or gelato.


More about it: Italy's 6 Sweet Christmas Breads: Panettone and Beyond

Do you know Pannettone?

And if yes, do you like it?

I like it very much indeed!
 
Panettone is really great! :peace:peace
 
I usually buy Panettone cakes around Christmas and around Easter.
May I remind you of those cakes at Easter time again?
 
I like Panettone if it’s the kind with chocolate chips. I’m not crazy about the fruitcakey kind.

Panettone makes good French toast, though!

LOL. I hate the ones with chocolate chips. To me it just tastes like a loaf of bread with chocolate in it. I am not a huge fan of them either way though.
 
I do not hate chocolate as such.
But i do hate chocolate chips - where-ever they are!
 
I like Panettone if it’s the kind with chocolate chips. I’m not crazy about the fruitcakey kind.

I like the fruitcakey kind and hate the chocolate-chips-kind. :cool:
 
Easter is drwaing nigh - time for a Panettone. :)
 
I just gobbled my way through an entire Panettone myself, because my fam didn't like it.
 
I just gobbled my way through an entire Panettone myself, because my fam didn't like it.

Congratulations. No excuses necessary, nor blame on the family's lack of good taste. My only questions, with or without beverage, what type of beverage, and how much pot did you smoke before, during and after?

D'ats a lot a da panettone!

I prefer a slightly toasted slice or two with lemon curd and a double espresso with anisette.
 
Congratulations. No excuses necessary, nor blame on the family's lack of good taste. My only questions, with or without beverage, what type of beverage, and how much pot did you smoke before, during and after?

D'ats a lot a da panettone!

I prefer a slightly toasted slice or two with lemon curd and a double espresso with anisette.

Wasn't all in one sitting...gift from Karen's big sis.
I just let it sit there for a day or so:

"No one wants any of this?"
"We don't like it."
"Okayfine, more for me.";)


Had a slice, had another after din-din, and another....next morning had some more, nibbled on it a little more during the day, and by the day after that it was history because by that point I was just tearing hunks off the thing.
I finally just ****ed it over pretty good and finished it off.
It was the chocolate chip variety so just my usual lightly sweetened/lightly creamed espresso style coffee.

I ain't no "professional" pothead, I'm doing well if I can manage a single bong hit around bedtime or thereabouts.
When I was a major druggie, (clean now 25 years) even back then, I wasn't a big pot smoker, my drug was cocaine, the "Republican" drug. :lamo
Wifey is the "career" pothead, it's one of her MS medicines and it works well for her, stops the leg spasms so she can go about her day and also sleep. She makes fun of me because I can't even begin to keep up.

Can't help it I'm the most Italian in our bunch...my kids are MY kids but they're from her first marriage.
Karen is only about 1/4 Italian thus the kids are one-eighth, whereas I am half-Italian.

What does it mean when your kids are only one-eighth Italian?
It means they both have blonde hair and don't understand why eggplant parm is food of the gods.
That is definitely WBB, Way Beyond Blonde. :lamo
 
Wasn't all in one sitting....

That is definitely WBB, Way Beyond Blonde. :lamo

The early Romans were mostly reputed to be blonds. As were the Greeks. Visit Sicily and get surprised by the many redheads from the mountains. Many natural blonds in Italy. Virna Lisa was required to dye her hair as brunette for one role because one director didn't think the audience would believe she was Italian enough.



Not one sitting? You disappointed me. :doh :roll:
 
The early Romans were mostly reputed to be blonds. As were the Greeks. Visit Sicily and get surprised by the many redheads from the mountains. Many natural blonds in Italy. Virna Lisa was required to dye her hair as brunette for one role because one director didn't think the audience would believe she was Italian enough.



Not one sitting? You disappointed me. :doh :roll:


I am well aware of the differences between the "more Roman" Northern Italians and the Southern Italians.
 
Visit Sicily and get surprised by the many redheads from the mountains. Many natural blonds in Italy.

A sign of the Norman invasions ....
 
A sign of the Norman invasions ....

Blondes and redheads existed in ancient Greece and Italy long before the Normans, the tribes of Scandinavians existed. BTW Mohamed was a redhead, and the genes for red hair in North Africa differ from those in Europe.
 
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