Editing Pandoro

{{Short description|Italian sweet bread}}
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{{Infobox food
| name             = ''Pandoro''
| image            = Pandoro with slice.jpg
| image_size       = 270px
| caption          = 
| alternate_name   = 
| country          = [[Italy]]
| region           = [[Verona]], [[Veneto]]
| creator          = Domenico Melegatti{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
| course           = 
| type             = Dessert bread
| served           = 
| main_ingredient  = [[Flour]], [[Eggs as food|eggs]], [[butter]], [[sugar]]
| variations       = 
}}

'''''Pandoro''''' ({{IPA|it|panˈdɔːro|lang}}) is an [[Italian cuisine|Italian]] [[List of sweet breads|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.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last= |first= |date=2023-12-07 |title=Pandoro And Panettone: The Staples Of An Italian Christmas |url=https://italicsmag.com/2023/12/07/pandoro-and-panettone-the-staples-of-an-italian-christmas/ |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=Italics Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> It is often dusted with vanilla scented [[Powdered sugar|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|date=December 2024}}

==History==
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[[File:Classic italian pandoro (45983202242).jpg|thumb|A classical ''pandoro'']]

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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Christmas favourite Pandoro cake survives bankruptcy through Malta equity fund |url=https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/christmas/christmas/83214/christmas_favourite_pandoro_cake_survives_bankruptcy_through_malta_equity_fund |access-date=2024-02-16 |website=MaltaToday.com.mt |language=en}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Italy|Food}}
* [[List of Italian desserts and pastries]]
* ''[[Colomba pasquale]]'' ([[Easter bread]])
* [[Panettone]]
* ''[[Panone]]''

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book|title=Pandoro. Successo segreto di un dolce dalle origini alla fase industriale|trans-title=Pandoro. Secret success of a sweet from its origins to mass production|last=Di Giovine|first=Elia|language=it|publisher=Gemma Editco|date=1989|isbn=8889125284}}
* {{cite book|title=Dolce Natale|last=Lo Russo|first=Giuseppe|language=it|publisher=Fratelli Alinari|date=2004|isbn=8872924731}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.farine-mc.com/2009/12/pan-doro.html Pan d'oro]

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[[Category:Italian desserts]]
[[Category:Italian pastries]]
[[Category:Cuisine of Veneto]]
[[Category:Christmas in Italy]]
[[Category:Christmas food]]
[[Category:Christmas cakes]]
[[Category:Sweet breads]]
[[Category:Yeast breads]]