TARTINE BAKERY RECIPES

If you’ve bought a loaf of truly fantastic panettone, made in the Italian tradition from a natural starter, the kind that’s airy and melting, we hope you don’t have any leftovers. But if you find yourself with an excess of mass-produced panettone, or simply very old panettone that’s past its prime, here’s how to transform it into something special. Cut it into thick slices, as the pastry chef Elisabeth Prueitt does with brioche, when she makes her bread pudding at Tartine Bakery in San Francisco. Toast them. Now layer the bread in a wide dish, and pour over a whisked custard of milk and eggs. It will look like too much liquid, but as it bakes, the panettone will soak it all up, becoming moist and tender and impossibly rich. It’s close enough to a casserole of French toast to make it ideal for a special holiday breakfast, but sweet enough to step in as dessert on a cold night. Vanilla would be a classic way to flavor the custard, but panettone tends to be quite sweet and perfumed already, so taste the bread first before adding extras.

Provided by Tejal Rao

Total Time 1 hours 10 minutes

Yield 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 7

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http//schema.org, Calories 418, UnsaturatedFatContent 7 grams, CarbohydrateContent 53 grams, FatContent 16 grams, FiberContent 2 grams, ProteinContent 14 grams, SaturatedFatContent 6 grams, SodiumContent 373 milligrams, SugarContent 23 grams, TransFatContent 1 gram

If you’ve bought a loaf of truly fantastic panettone, made in the Italian tradition from a natural starter, the kind that’s airy and melting, we hope you don’t have any leftovers. But if you find yourself with an excess of mass-produced panettone, or simply very old panettone that’s past its prime, here’s how to transform it into something special. Cut it into thick slices, as the pastry chef Elisabeth Prueitt does with brioche, when she makes her bread pudding at Tartine Bakery in San Francisco. Toast them. Now layer the bread in a wide dish, and pour over a whisked custard of milk and eggs. It will look like too much liquid, but as it bakes, the panettone will soak it all up, becoming moist and tender and impossibly rich. It’s close enough to a casserole of French toast to make it ideal for a special holiday breakfast, but sweet enough to step in as dessert on a cold night. Vanilla would be a classic way to flavor the custard, but panettone tends to be quite sweet and perfumed already, so taste the bread first before adding extras.

Provided by Tejal Rao

Total Time 1 hours 10 minutes

Yield 8 servings

Number Of Ingredients 7

• Ingredients

Nutrition Facts : @context http//schema.org, Calories 418, UnsaturatedFatContent 7 grams, CarbohydrateContent 53 grams, FatContent 16 grams, FiberContent 2 grams, ProteinContent 14 grams, SaturatedFatContent 6 grams, SodiumContent 373 milligrams, SugarContent 23 grams, TransFatContent 1 gram