Marietta's Panettone

Ingredients

• 300 g finest flour
• 100 g butter
• 80 g sugar
• 80 g sultanas
• 1 whole + 2 yolks eggs
• 1 pinch salt
• 10 g cream of tartar
• 5 g bicarbonate of soda
• 20 g candied peel
• lemon zest
• 2 dl milk

Instructions

1. Soften butter (bain-marie in winter) and work it with the eggs; add flour and milk gradually.
2. Add everything but the sultanas and leavening powders; work at least half an hour to a consistency neither runny nor firm.
3. Fold in sultanas, then cream of tartar and bicarbonate last; pour into a tall round double-capacity mould, buttered and dusted with sugar and flour.
4. Bake; it should rise into a cracked dome.