Rick's Panettone I Made It

Rick's Panettone

chuckieb 10 years ago
My Mom and I recently watched the Nadia G's Bitchin' Kitchin' Christmas Special and on it she was talking about Italian Panettone. My Mom expressed interest as she'd never heard of it before and I have never tried it before. So I went to a local Italian Deli and sure enough they sell it but the loaf was immense! So I mentioned that in ODD and Marie came to my rescue and reminded me that her hubby has a recipe that's posted for one that he makes at Christmas time to give to family and friends (lucky them!)
Ricks Panettone Bread Machine
I shall confess straight away that I am a Bread Machine Newbie. I've used one a few times but not recently and not often. The bread machine that I do own was given to me second hand and I do have the manual for it but no where in the manual (that I could see anyway) nor on the machine itself could I see what size loaf it made.
Deciding to just forge ahead and see what would happen, I followed Rick's recipe to the 'T' and threw in all the ingredients as stated. I went to the local bulk food store earlier on in the week and bought a vanilla bean, which was fun to use as I've only cooked with that a couple times as well, and for fruit I chose dried blueberries, dried cherries and cranraisins. I soaked the raisins although I only had white rum.
Into the bread machine pan it all went. So it did its thing and it twirled and whirled and jumped around on the counter a little and then it grew, and it grew, and it grew........
So I started to get worried. :) I looked at the recipes in the bread machine manual and saw that the most amount of flour they called for was 2 1/2 cups and Rick's recipe calls for 3 1/4. I hurriedly sent off a note to Marie to ask her if she thought I should scoop the dough out of the machine once it had risen and just bake it in the oven in a loaf pan, and we decided that was the safer thing to do. :)
So I pulled the dough out onto the counter and added the raisins, nuts, orange zest and fruit, rolled it all out and pounded and mooshed it, and then set it back in the loaf pan to rise again for another 45 min. or so. Into the oven it went and voila....success. A very nice looking loaf.
I see from Rick's picture that his loaf has a tighter grain than my loaf. Plus...I realized upon cutting into it that I hadn't done the best job of mixing the fruit nor the orange zest in as some slices contain lots and some none. LOL! But that was all my fault. If I'd had the proper sized bread machine to make the 1 1/2 lb. loaf the machine would have done all that mixing of the fruit in for me properly.
My Mom loved it. She had a pc. straight out of the oven and then also requested another slice with a bowl of Dill Pickle soup that evening for dinner. Which I thought to be a strange combination but who am I to judge?
This was a fun recipe to make and Marie, I thank you so much for pointing it out to me. Although I'm sure Rick's version is superior, it's yummy and won't go to waste that's for sure!
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pointsevenout 10 years ago said:

Glad it worked out for you. I'm tempted to make it but it would be without benefit of the machine.
Not to pick nits, but the date on the recipe should be 12-11-13. : - )

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chuckieb 10 years ago said:

You? A nit picker Points? Really????? :) I purposely put 11-12-13 on the recipe as the date as it's a 'fun' number for today, being the eleventh day of the twelfth month of the 13th year.
And if you want to query the truth farther....then check the following link out on Wikipedia....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country
Depending on what country you live in, the date format is different.
But bottom line....I don't care.

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NPMarie 10 years ago said:

Janet, I love your pictures and am so very pleased it worked out for you! What really makes my day is that your Mom enjoyed the Panettone so much! Thank you for the very nice review, Rick will be delighted:-)

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Good4U 10 years ago said:

I think it looks lovely! Janet I don't have a bread machine either but I am tempted to buy one now:) I don't care for raisins but I like the dried blueberries, dried cherries and cranraisins idea and maybe I could sub dried currants in this too? I should make a point of trying this or something like this to see if my Hubby would like it as a test as he says he doesn't care for fruit cakes etc. To be honest I had never heard of Panettone before Marie was talking about it and I thought it might be like a fruit cake or something but it looks very good too me now:) Thanks Marie and Janet we always get such a good education about recipes and different foods and techniques in here:) Bookmarking this one as well:)

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pointsevenout 10 years ago said:

I submit! LOL

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NPMarie 10 years ago said:

Joce, any dried fruit would work in this recipe, we have used dried cranberries, currants..even dates:) It's more of an Italian sweet bread, not anything like fruitcake:) What really makes this is the orange zest and rum soaked raisins..also instead of raisins, soak the dried currants instead:) On Christmas morning we always make Panettone French Toast..ummm....... nothing like it:) I agree Joce, I love chatting about the recipes we try, want to try or have tried! I just love my GR friends:)

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frankieanne 10 years ago said:

That bread looks yummy! That lovely color makes me think its nice and sweet. I'm not certain it would fit in my bread machine either. I think 2.5 cups of flour is all mine can handle. Good save with throwing it in the oven. Just goes to show that would work as well. All that pounding and mooshing paid off. :-)
I had a feeling that is what you were doing with the date. We used to have a guy where I work who always wrote his dates in the "European" way. Which was odd because he was from Ohio or some place like that. I never could figure out why he did it! :-)
Nice write-up, Janet.

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chuckieb 10 years ago said:

As Marie said Joce, you could add whatever dried fruit you desire, which really appealed to me as I am not a date fan nor do I like any of those dried citron things they use in Fruitcake. (I hate Fruitcake)
The bread isn't sweet like a dessert sweet Frankieanne but most certainly it has a sweetness to it.
It was really lovely.

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lovebreezy 10 years ago said:

I always thought it was sweet like those King's Hawaiian rolls/bread. Sorta sweet but not really. Bread machine panettone, great, I'm saving this one.

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mommyluvs2cook 10 years ago said:

That's another item on my wish list, a bread machine, but honestly I don't know where I would put it, I finally just made enough room for my Keurig lol!
I'm guessing this could be made by hand. I love sweet bread yum!!

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lovebreezy 10 years ago said:

Personally I think that if you have a mixer with dough hooks you don't need a bread machine. Unless you want it to bake overnight or while you're away. I don't like the shape from a machine and it always has that hole where you remove the paddle.

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mommyluvs2cook 10 years ago said:

I do have a dough hook for my mixer so I think I'm gonna give this a go soon...

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