Panettone appreciation

Never made a panettone, but fancying doing one for the new year. Has anyone made one with sourdough?

Also what I can do with a workaround for a mould? I only have your standard cake tins

The wild yeast one I liked to above is sourdough, but you need to make a 40-50% hydration starter, then bolster it with regular feeds every 4 hours or so, there's a bit at the bottom of the page about that. That and the bulk ferment demand a constant temp of about 29° so will require a proving chamber. This removes the 'sour' bit which goes against the flavor profile of the sweetened bread. My last attempt I failed and the sourness definitely still comes through.

Moulds ordered, fuck it. Pray4me

Until tomorrow, Godspeed. Nice to use my starter again after spending the last few months doing very little

You added pistachio...like it.

EDIT: Waitrose eggs.....golf bat thread

EDIT2: May the tempbe even and your crust be smooth.

A solid start

Irish panettone this week

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Just got back from my inlaws in Perugia, ate a lot of panettone and brought a couple back with me. Will eat them tonight 😊

Pretty pleased for a first attempt

Very nice :). Hows it taste?

I am going to try panettone this year, was looking for a recipe and thought, 'should ask the LFGSS bread thread' but first I tried a quick search, and of course there is a dedicated thread already :-) Good reading, thanks for the link sharing.

Wilko going bust has been a massive issue :/

Aldi & Lidl should be your friends now.

For 'real' panettone have a look at Artefood in Windsor.
Spoiler alert: will be pricy.

Yeah.

The cases I bought were the wrong size and it didn't rise as much as I hoped so it hasn't spilled satisfyingly over the top, but at least there's a phaffy new baking thing to phaff with:

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Ha, took me a second to work out what was going on there. Cool way of doing it!

I was all set to do the drier rack like in the wildyeast recipe but the skewers were then too long to fit in the only possible box I could find to let it rise under a cover so they got cut off, so that plan failed... I am now watching it carefully after both wildyeast and others here report that it can actually stretch a bit too far - would seem ridiculous to ruin it at this stage...

Have you had any luck finding a Wilko alternative?

So have already got through 3 of Lidl’s panettone but partner was raving about a pistachio and lemon one she had at a do from Gail’s which is £35
What’s out there that’s good and somewhere in between price wise for both classic (my favourite) and pistachio/lemon up to £25ish.
Local world foods place has a few Bonifanti ones in fancy packaging but no idea if they are any good.

I got a limoncello one from Seggiano last year, was around £20 at one of those deli shops on Columbia Road

Italian shop on green lanes Harringey.

There were many many brands, and more types than there were when I was young.

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