Panettone

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Panettone ( Lombard panatun ) is a traditional Milanese cake specialty that is mainly eaten in Italy during the Christmas season . The product specification and manufacture are defined by an official description. (Disciplinare di produione del “Panettone tipico della tradizione artigiana Milanese”). Panettone is a registered trademark of the Milan Chamber of Commerce.

ingredients

Only the following ingredients are allowed for the production of the traditional panettone:

water
Flour
sugar
Fresh egg and / or pasteurized egg products
Pasteurized milk and / or ultra-high temperature milk (UHT) and / or condensed milk and / or yogurt
Cocoa butter
Butter and / or dehydrated butter
Sultanas, candied peel of oranges and cedar lemons (minimum size of pieces 8 × 8 mm)
salt

Other possible ingredients:

honey
Malt and malt extract
vanilla
natural aromas and / or nature-identical aromas.

Various other ingredients are expressly excluded: preservatives , soy lecithin or colorings .

Manufacturing

Panettone is traditionally made from wheat sourdough , which gives it its typical flavor. The dough is soft but still kneadable, contains candied fruits and raisins , and is traditionally baked in special paper sleeves, giving the cake a dome shape about 20 centimeters high. It is served in sectors , with hot, sweet drinks or sweet wine such as Spumante or Moscato .

The best-known manufacturers of industrially produced panettone are Motta , Bauli , Paluani , Alemagna and Le Tre Marie . There are also many bakeries all over northern Italy that make panettone in the traditional way in the run-up to Christmas.

Panettone has a longer shelf life than average. The best-before date is often given as six weeks.

In other countries

This cake specialty can also be found in Peru as a typical Christmas cake under the name Panetón . Around 20 million pieces are sold there at Christmas time.

Web links

Commons : Panettone - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Panettone - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Product specification and production regulations of the Camera di commercio Milano Monza Brianza Lodi (Italian)
Panettone in the database of Culinary Heritage of Switzerland (Italian)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Comitato Tecnico dei Maestri Pasticceri Milanesi: Panettone tipico della tradizione artigiana Milanese. (PDF) Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Milano, September 2003, accessed December 25, 2019 (Italian, Official Denomination.).
↑ Martin Morales: Ceviche - Peruvian cuisine . Fackelträger Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7716-4551-9 , p. 106 .

[Prod-1] Comitato Tecnico dei Maestri Pasticceri Milanesi: Panettone tipico della tradizione artigiana Milanese. (PDF) Camera di Commercio Industria Artigianato e Agricoltura di Milano, September 2003, accessed December 25, 2019 (Italian, Official Denomination.).

[2] Martin Morales: Ceviche - Peruvian cuisine . Fackelträger Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-7716-4551-9 , p. 106 .