Don't be fooled! when they want you to part with your pennies...

remil

A thread on what NOT to buy.
Morrisons' own bakery "Panettone" is not a Panettone.

I have noticed M is selling, among its own bakery stuff, a fruit bread loaf in the shape of a Panettone (high paper cylinder, "muffin-top" bump).
Until last week it was displayed with a label "Panettone Loaf"; today I noticed just "Panettone".
There is a blurb on the shelf saying something like "based on the Italian recipe... rich fruit bread...".
It comes with a price tag of £1.99 for about half a kg loaf (what would be a small Panettone).
DO NOT BE FOOLED!
Morrison's own bakery product has only the resemblance of a Panettone.
You have better to:
1. buy their usual fruit bread loaf for a third of that price, or
2. buy a proper Panettone.

A proper Panettone has to be made with:
- butter: proper butter and NO other fat, and at least 16% of the product;
- whole eggs or eggs and yolks, or yolks only, which must be fresh (category A), and in such a quantity that the final yolk content is at least 4%;
- raisins/sultana/candied peel, minimum 20% total;
- sourdough, and that has to be its main leavening agent;

Only a very limited number of other ingredients are allowed, (so no colours, which can be found in Morrison's product) for the true Panettone.
So if you buy the genuine article (just read labels of boxes, from Lidl to Harrods you can find the right stuff) you get something that is quite nutritious and better quality:
- the butter may be heavy, but it is satisfying to the palate, makes it very filling, and you'll eat less;
- eggs add complete proteins;
- the long leavening makes it easy to digest, and also my good mother-in-law, who can't eat bread, can manage Panettone.

Gunna

Thanks for the heads up

I have been looking at that on their website the other day, was wondering whether to try one or not.

glitter03

They had some out today on a tray to sample and it was yummy

singledaddy

...and their Lions Bars have absolutely no 'kings of the jungle' in them. a disgrace I tell you, a disgrace!!

xelaris

glitter03 wrote: »

They had some out today on a tray to sample and it was yummy

yummy? Have you ever tried the real Panettone? I've just bought the Morrison "panettone" and it tastes bland, dry...just like fluffy sugary bread with some currants - (then of course is a matter of taste)...it shouldn't be called panettone and I now understand why Italians are so protective of their own products....
Unfortunately some would assume Morrison's Panettone is the proper one - it reminds me of a Thai guy who didn't like Ciabatta bread - "where did you buy it?" I asked, "at ASDA" he said...yeah, that fluffy, bland, pointless bread shaped like a Ciabatta - of course he didn't try Ciabatta bread again after his ASDA's experience...

Edwardia

Some of the part-baked ciabatta from Lidl can be a bit brick-like Last Christmas I bought pandoro and panettone from Lidl and they were great.

I'd complain to Morrisons myself, it's sneaky !

abailey54

I would recommend not buying meat and potato pies from Morries aswell. I'm pretty sure they make their shortcrust pastry from 100% lard, which is nice if you like it that way, but for me (I normally make it 75% butter, 25% lard), it was horrible and made me feel sick, bleugh

I've never tried real or fake panettone - what's so great about it?

TravellingAbuela

I don't know if Morrisons are doing their own Stollen again this year but, if so, avoid them! Just like a large currant tea-cake with a bit of marzipan inside. No resemblance whatsoever to a proper Continental Stollen.

Owain_Moneysaver

xelaris wrote: »

...yeah, that fluffy, bland, pointless bread shaped like a Ciabatta

But ciabatta is fluffy, bland and pointless.

Well, not quite pointless, it was invented in the 1980s because the Italians didn't have anything they could make sandwiches with and they were getting tired of importing French baguttes (which are even fluffier, blander and more pointless than ciabatta).

I quite like ciabatta, actually.

Edwardia

Ciabatta is the best thing in the world for mopping up olive oil with. Can't say the same for baguette, it's really only good for soaking in water, squeezing and putting over Provencal tian as a crust or floating in soupe de poissons. Otherwise its either too chewy or brittle and disintegrating.

TravellingAbuela

And try making Bruschetta or a Panini sandwich without Ciabatta - absolutely nothing else works!