Panettone, the building block for post-Christmas breakfast dishes

Panettone, the Italian Christmas bread, makes a delicious and versatile base for other holiday breakfast recipes.

Ways to use up this Italian Christmas bread.

‘Tis not the season without panettone. The mile-high domed Italian Christmas bread, studded with raisins and candied orange, light and airy in texture yet richly flavored with eggs and butter, tastes like the holiday. Our mum had it at Christmas always, a reminder of her Italian homeland, though she had to travel far from our little Ohio village to the one grocer for miles that carried it.