Pandoro
pandoro italian panˈdɔːro italian sweet bread popular around christmas new year typically product city verona pandoro traditionally eightpointed shape often dusted vanilla scented icing sugar said resemble snowy peak alp christmas pandoro appeared remote time product breadmaking name pan doro lit golden bread suggests throughout middle age white bread consumed solely rich common people ate black bread sweet bread reserved nobility bread enriched egg butter sugar honey sweetener served palace known royal bread golden bread th century dessert described book suor celeste galilei letter father published la rosa turin included royal bread made flour sugar butter egg first citation dessert clearly identified pandoro date th century dessert certainly figured cuisine venetian aristocracy venice principal market spice late th century well sugar replaced honey european pastry bread made leavened dough verona venetian territory formula making pandoro developed perfected process required century modern history dessert bread began october domenico melegatti obtained patent procedure applied producing pandoro industrially melegatti formed pandoro company survived bankruptcy crisis mamón canelé list italian dessert pastry colomba pasquale easter bread panettone panone di giovine elia pandoro successo segreto di un dolce dalle origini alla fase industriale pandoro secret success sweet origin mass production italian gemma editco isbn lo russo giuseppe dolce natale italian fratelli alinari isbn pan doro