Pandoro

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Pandoro

Type	Dessert bread
Place of origin	Italy
Region or state	Verona, Veneto
Created by	Domenico Melegatti[citation needed]
Main ingredients	Flour, eggs, butter, sugar
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Pandoro (Italian: [panˈdɔːro]) is an Italian sweet bread, most popular around Christmas and New Year. Typically a product of the city of Verona, Veneto, pandoro traditionally has an eight-pointed shape.^[1] It is often dusted with vanilla scented icing sugar, which is said to resemble the snowy peaks of the Alps during Christmas.

Its name and origins are attributed to the Italian pastry chef Domenico Melegatti.^{[citation needed]}

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Pandoro appeared in remote times, the product of breadmaking, as the name, pan d'oro (lit. 'golden bread'), suggests. Throughout the Middle Ages, white bread was consumed solely by the rich, while the common people ate black bread. Sweet breads were reserved for the nobility. Bread enriched with eggs, butter, and sugar or honey as a sweetener were served in their palaces and known as "royal bread" or "golden bread".^{[citation needed]}

17th century desserts were described in the book Suor Celeste Galilei, Letters to Her Father, published by La Rosa of Turin, and included "royal bread" made from flour, sugar, butter and eggs.^{[citation needed]}

The first citation of a dessert clearly identified as pandoro dates to the 18th century. The dessert certainly figured in the cuisine of the Venetian aristocracy. Venice was the principal market for spices as late as the 18th century, as well as for the sugar that by then had replaced honey in European pastries and bread made from leavened dough. It was at Verona, in Venetian territory, that the formula for making pandoro was developed and perfected, a process that required a century. The modern history of this dessert bread began there on October 30, 1894, when Domenico Melegatti obtained a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. Melegatti formed a pandoro company in 1896, which survived a bankruptcy crisis in 2017.^[2]

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• Di Giovine, Elia (1989). Pandoro. Successo segreto di un dolce dalle origini alla fase industriale [Pandoro. Secret success of a sweet from its origins to mass production] (in Italian). Gemma Editco. ISBN 8889125284.
• Lo Russo, Giuseppe (2004). Dolce Natale (in Italian). Fratelli Alinari. ISBN 88-7292-473-1.

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