Pandoro ……… just one of the great sweet things to eat

Now I came late to Pandoro, which is a traditional Italian sweet bread, particularly popular at Christmas and New Year.

And with that in the frame |I can date my first one to around 2000, when the Italian side of the family came over for Christmas bringing the plain version.

Today they come with all sorts of fillings, and last week we picked up one with an orange filling.

Now what ever the filling, I like to serve a pandoro with icing sugar.  These come in a small sachet and having opened the polythene bag containing the bread, you administer the sugar, shaking the bag, so that the it covers the pandora.

At which point I could get technical and say that the pandoro is shaped like a frustum with an eight-pointed star section, but even I had to look up the word frustum, which is really a pyramid shape with the top lopped off.

And so for the romantic, the addition of the sugar, gives the appearance of the snowy peaks of the Italian Alps at Christmas.*

All of which is true, but rarely is commented on as such in our family.
Nor do they bother over much with its history, the first reference to which comes in the 18th century or to its modern version developed in 1894, by Domenico Melegatti who began producing it industrially.

And a good job too.

Picture; from the cover of the one we had last week

* Pandoro, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoro