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Panpepato

This is a darker version of panforte. Packed with spices, including cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and a touch of warming black pepper, it makes a great gift packaged in an airtight tin and tied with a pretty ribbon. It will keep for a month if stored this way.

Preparation time:
35 minutes
Cooking time:
35 minutes to 40 minutes
Total time:
1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes 60 minutes 15 minutes
Makes:
 16

Ingredients

  • Rice paper
  • 100g walnut pieces
  • 100g whole blanched hazelnuts
  • 100g blanched almonds
  • 200g mixed peel or candied citrus peel, chopped
  • 50g plain flour
  • 4 tbsp cocoa powder
  • ½ tsp ground nutmeg
  • ½ tsp ground coriander
  • 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper
  • ¼ tsp ground cloves
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 225g runny honey
  • 25g unsalted butter
  • Icing sugar, for dredging

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C, gas mark 4. Lightly butter an 18cm-square loose-bottomed tin and line the base and sides with rice paper. Bake the nuts on a tray for 12-15 minutes till golden brown. Cool, then roughly chop and transfer into a bowl with the peel and sift in the flour, cocoa and spices. Turn the oven down to 150°C, gas mark 2.
  2. Put the sugar, honey, and butter in a saucepan and gently heat, stirring till dissolved. Bring to the boil and boil until it reaches the 'soft ball' stage (113°C-118°C on a sugar thermometer). To test this, you can also scoop some out on a spoon and drop into a jug of water: it should go into a soft ball. Stir in the nut mixture, pour into the tin and smooth the surface with an oiled potato masher. Bake for 35-40 minutes. Remove from the oven and leave to firm up in the tin on a cooling rack. Remove the tin, trim the paper, sieve over some icing sugar and cut into slices or cubes.

Drinks recommendation

Try a classy, complex sweet sherry, which shares the bread's mocha and dried-fig flavours.

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gottenlost

gottenlost 01 April 2011 02:13

Very good!! Best food I had at the International Food Festival at my college. Everyone who looked past the look of it, loved it.

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Nutritional Info

Typical values per serving:
Energy 287.0kcal
Sugars 30.3g
Fat 14.8g
Saturated Fat 2.6g
Salt 0.3g

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This recipe was first published on Waitrose.com in April 2006