PANETTONE (Italian Christmas bread: traditional recipe)

Panettone is the most traditional Italian Christmas recipe: a sweet bread loaf which comes in its traditional cupola shape flavoured with raisins, candied orange and citron. The awarded pastry chef Alfonso Pepe teach us how to prepare the traditional naturally leavened Panettone, fluffy and fragrant!

★ INGREDIENTS

FIRST MIX

• Manitoba flour (high protein content flour) 250 g

• Sourdough (freshened three times during the day) 65 g

• Water 125 g

• Butter 70 g

• Sugar 65 g

• Malt 2 g

• Egg yolk 50 g

SECOND MIX

• Manitoba flour (high protein content flour) 62 g

• Sugar 50 g

• Butter 40 g

• Egg yolk 50 g

• Raisins 150 g

• Fine salt 2 g

• Vanilla pod 1

• Wattle honey 16 g

• Candied cedar 30 g

• Candied Orange 70 g

• Orange paste 75 g

• Tangerine paste 30 g