PANDORO

 Pandoro (goden bread) is a traditional Italian sweet yeast bread, most popular around Christmas and new Year. Typically a Veronese product, Pandoro is traditionally shaped like a frustum with an 8 pointed-star section. It is often served dusted with vanilla scented icing sugar made to resemble the snowy peaks of the Italian Alps during Christmas. The first citation of a dessert clearly identified as Pandoro dates to the 18th century. The dessert certainly figured in the cuisine of the Venetian aristocracy.Venice was the principal market for spices as late as the 18th century as well as for the sugar that by then had replaced honey in European pastries and breads made from leavened dough. And it was at Verona, in Venetian territory, that the formula for making pandoro was developed and perfected, a process that required a century. The modern history of this dessert bread began at Verona on October 30, 1894, when Domenico Melegatti obtained a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. Pandoro was also the last meal eaten by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini before his execution in 1945.

1.     Pandoro is like

a)    A planet

b)    A fish

c)    A star

d)    A rugby ball

2.    Pandoro was invented

a)    In south Italy

b)    In Sicily

c)    In Molise

d)    In Venetian area

3.    Pandoro was the last meal eaten by

a)    Francisco Franco

b)    Benito Mussolini

c)    John Kennedy

d)    Charles De Gaulle