The Recipe: Panettone
Recipe
2 packages active dry yeast
1 cup hot water (105 to 115° F.)
4 1/2 cups flour
1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 cup sugar
3 large eggs
2 teaspoons grated lemon zest
2 teaspoons grated orange zest
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup chopped citron or your choice of candied fruit
1/4 cup dark raisins, golden raisins, or currants
1 tablespoon melted butter
2 greased one-pound coffee cans.
In a large bowl, sprinkle yeast over
water. Let sit 5 minutes to dissolve. Vigorously stir in 1 cup of
flour. Cover, and let rise about one hour or until doubled in
size.
In a separate bowl, cream butter and sugar
together until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, then
add zests and salt.
Stir yeast mixture into egg mixture, then
beat in remaining flour and fruit. Place dough in a large greased
bowl, and turn to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place
until doubled in size, about 1 1/2 hours.
Punch down dough, and divide into two
pieces. Place each piece in a coffee can, cover cans with plastic
wrap and allow to rise about 30 minutes, or until dough rises over
tops of cans.
Meanwhile, preheat oven to 350°
F.
Brush tops of loaves with melted butter,
and bake 30 to 40 minutes, or until brown, and loaves sound hollow
when tapped.
Cool on wire racks.
Makes 2 panettones.
The Movie: Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
(2005)
Frank, a fourth-generation baker, has been consumed by grief
over his wife''s death. But everything changes when he pulls over
on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car
wreck. En route to fulfill a forty-year promise to his childhood
sweetheart, the stranger shares a compelling tale of adolescent
love replete with first kisses, youthful innocence and ballroom
dancing. Frank promises to fulfill the stranger''s last request and
finds himself at the doorsteps of Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom
Dancing & Charm School to meet the stranger’s long-lost love.
It''s here that he finds an odd path to a new beginning when he
meets Meredith, a beautiful woman trying to find a peace of her own
and Frank feels passionate and alive for the first time in
years.
