This Italian type of sweet bread originally from Milan, although this recipe is a Sicilian one that a baker gave us years ago when we visited the famous island. Painstaking recreated by Odile when we got home and we've enjoyed for Christmas and New Year ever since. So this year we decided it was time we shared this deliciously sweet, buttery yeasted cake with you as a Limited Edition product on the run up to Christmas.
Making it is a long process that involves proving the dough over a long time, similar to sourdough. The proving process alone takes several hours, but helps develope it's delicious flavour and softens the dough to create a cake type texture rather than bread.
It's an enriched dough that is almost more of a batter, containing copious amounts of butter and free range eggs as well as candied orange and lemon, lots of fresh lemon and orange zest, raisins, almonds and sugar.
Traditionally it is served in wedge slices vertically cut, accompanied with hot coffee or a sweet wine, although being British we think it doesn't get much better than sliced like a loaf, toasted and spread with plenty of butter.
Minimum nett weight 850gm.
ALLERGENS: GLUTEN, SULPHITES, MILK, EGGS, NUTS
ORIGIN: British 🇬🇧
Suitable for vegetarians 🌱
Suitable for home freezing on day of delivery ❄️
Ing: Wheat Flour[wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin], Free Range Eggs, Whole Milk, Sugar, Butter(Cream, Salt), Almonds, Raisins, Mixed Peel[Orange peel, glucose-fructose syrup, Lemon peel, Sugar, Potassium Sorbate, Sulphur Dioxide, Citric Acid, Vegetable oil], Orange Zest, Lemon Zest, Yeast, Salt.
Jim & Odile Sutcliffe
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