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Panettone and mountain disenchanted

E' tempo di festività e di tradizioni. Winter makes us feel more comfortable in the warmth of our homes and enjoy the rituals of the Christmas holidays with all kinds of cuisines and delicacies with friends and our loved ones. Delicatessen delicacies and has already spoken on the previous posting in Cremona Marshall related the story of Bianca Maria Visconti.

The food is an expression of the tradition of the people and even of religious rites. In the case of pastries, you should say that at times mimics nature, much more than nature does not imitate the pastry. As the traditional panettone, who was born in Milan, then spread throughout Italy and worldwide. What makes us think first of the cake? A a mountain, or plateau . Or maybe even in the same cathedral, in a more free-range and stylized. And since the Gothic cathedrals were imitating the verticality of the mountains with their peaks and their peaks, this is when the transitive property, if the cathedral mimics the mountain and the cake mimics the cathedral, then the cake is directed , son of the mountain. He spoke about the funny storyteller Philippe Daverio in a broadcast on Rai 3 of serie " Notturno con panettone " che fece per l'appunto un viaggio nei dipinti del paesaggio montano, abbinato al più famoso dolce natalizio, in un divertissement intitolato " Il panettone e la montagna disincantata ".

Ricordo pure la sua variante veneta del pandoro con l'immancabile dolce spolverata di zucchero a velo, simile al coccuzzolo innevato di un monte. Panettone o Pandoro? Questo è il problema. Personalmente opto per il primo, perché più ricco a vedersi, con canditi e uvetta.

The lower and the unleavened pandolce Genoa with the addition of pine nuts over the candy, but frankly, even though yours truly was born in Liguria, have never been able to appreciate the hardness of the dough. Not bad if you have the Genoese, but I find it a bit ' gnucco . Then there are the bread with candied gingerbread as Siena, but here we depart from the legend of the mountain to go down in the coastal regions.

On the origins of panettone are told many legends. It seems that arises from an error of levitation.

The Legend of cake I had chosen, leads us to corte di Ludovico il Moro, Signore di Milano.

È un giorno di festa, stanno per giungere numerosi invitati e tutto e pronto per ricevere gli ospiti.

Nelle cucine c'è un grande andirivieni di cuochi, sguatteri, valletti...

Il pranzo. ha inizio.

Sulle tavole sontuosamente imbandite vengono servite le prime portate: carni arrostite, cacciagione, pollame, pasticci carichi di spezie... il tutto tra canti, risa, musiche, esibizioni di giocolieri.

Nelle cucine, intanto, il capocuoco sta vivendo un piccolo dramma: il dolce, preparato con infinita cura, e riuscito male e se ne sta afflosciato on a large tray of silver.

No one knows how to fix the "crime"! Only a garbage boy named Toni, do not lose heart: up his sleeves and mix in a hurry in a large pan bread made of flour, yeast, eggs, butter, sugar, candied fruit and spices. When

already going to bake bread, she discovers a container full of raisins and that also adds to the mix.

While the rooms are served the last dish, the bread in the oven Yeast, takes a golden brown and spread around a delightful fragrance.

is the time to serve dessert.
The boy, hidden behind a curtain, light excited diners.
Behind him, more worried, is the chef: the cake will not succeed if the consequences will be disastrous! But success is unanimous that the diners are clamoring for the landlord to know the author of that extraordinary big bread that nobody before has ever tasted.
The boy, frightened and confused, is blowing in the room and greeted with applause.
What's your name? - Asked Ludovico il Moro.
My name is Toni - the boy answered, blushing.


In the general confusion he feels distinctly a voice
call this sweet "pan del Toni"!

And here, the panettone, the famous Milanese sweet.
Here is a link from which I drew the legend: http://www.poesie.reportonline.it/racconti-di-natale/la-leggenda-del-panettone.html

While history and legend of Pandora is intimately tied to the history of Verona, and his princes and his lordship Scala, but Austro-Hungarian tradition. Already known in the period of the Hapsburgs, the Austro-Hungarian lovers and nostalgia of the United Franz Josef Pandora's claim that the source is nothing but a rethink on the " Vienna bread." Perhaps, among the various versions of the birth of blond Pandora, the more reliable it is the Austro-Hungarian one. In fact, in 1800 the most renowned pastry chefs, especially in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, were those of Austria.

But back to the Pan Toni . Never mind if a piece of cake contains 360 calories. After the holidays, we will all on a diet. But above all, taste is inevitable accompaniment to the excellent moscato, or a fine sparkling wine (sweet or dry) or very good vintage champagne for a toast. To all friends, visitors and the Hesperides who are already on holiday, I wish, therefore, a Happy New Year!

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