This special Christmas and New Years Italian Panettone is a tall, fruit filled sweet yeast bread. Panettone is normally eaten at breakfast with coffee, or between meals served with a sweet wine. This bread is absolutely delicious plain, or serve toasted and buttered. The history of Panettone is uncertain, but one legend describes a Milanese baker named Toni who had a beautiful daughter. A young nobleman wanted to marry his daughter so disguised himself as a baker, and baked this special sweet bread filled with raisins and candied fruit peels to win the father�s approval. The two young people married, and meanwhile the sweet bread made Toni�s bakery famous, and was named �pan de Toni� or, Toni�s bread.