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Fergie51's picture
Fergie51

Panettone

For the last couple of years I've been making the Panettone recipe from Dan Dee that is on the Breadtopia site  and never had an issue but this year disaster hit. After removal from the oven and inverted, the panettone started to fall apart and drop from the old. I'm looking for what may have been the issue to cause this. Levito madre was in excellent shape, tripling in four hours at 28c, dough looked great at each stage, excellent window pane, proved well and had great oven spring. Internal cook temp showed as 95c, most research I’ve read mentions range between 90-93c. Crumb sure looked and tasted cooked so I’m looking for a possible reason as to why this happened. I am totally thrilled with the flavour blend of crystallised blood oranges and Davidsons plums, dried orange and chocolate. Pics show where I've put bits back together s you get an idea of oven spring and condition. SO, so good flavours. Any pointers gladly received. Cheers.

 

 

CharlotteS's picture
CharlotteS

Fergie

This happened to me once. It was so disappointing. I think it was because I used apricots in the filling. They were “dried” but still very moist, and I figured there was just too much moisture in the dough, resulting in the panettone being undercooked.  Perhaps your plums caused the same problem?  I’ve  never tried apricots again. So I haven’t really tested my theory.

charlotte

jo_en's picture
jo_en

The crystalized oranges, plums and chocolate are so over the top flavors.

I will be sure to to dry orange segments and try for the beautiful cross section of colors and flavors your crumb shows.

Were your plums somewhat dried?

Thank you for showing your work!!

cfraenkel's picture
cfraenkel

Hope it still tasted great.