Panettone is the tallest, lightest loaf on the holiday table, and it is also the one people slice freestyle — thick wedges for themselves, thin ones for everyone else. That is a dosing problem waiting to happen. So this bread is built on one rule: bake it clean, dose the serving butter, portion by the slice. The bread carries the citrus and vanilla; the butter on each slice carries the count. Twelve slices, one number, no guessing.
🧈 Decarb & Infusion (The Panettone Batch)
- Decarb: 7g ground flower, spread thin on a lined sheet, 240°F (115°C) for 40 minutes, until fragrant and golden. Cool completely before handling.
- Infusion method: Stovetop butter — decarbed flower + 1 cup unsalted butter, 180–200°F for 2 hours, never simmering. Strain through cheesecloth, press gently. Yield: ~1 cup finished dosed butter.
- Storage: Refrigerate airtight up to 3 weeks, freeze up to 6 months. Label it dosed and dated.
- Dosing math for this batch: 1 tablespoon dosed butter ≈ 72mg THC, 1 teaspoon ≈ 24mg. This recipe portions 2 tablespoons total (≈ 144mg) across 12 slices at ½ teaspoon of dosed butter per slice — about 12mg per slice.
🥘 The Recipe: Infused Panettone with Dosed Serving Butter (1 loaf, 12 slices, ~12mg each)
- Build the dough clean: Stir 1 packet active dry yeast into ½ cup warm milk with a pinch of sugar and let it foam. Knead with 3½ cups flour, ⅓ cup sugar, 3 eggs, 1 egg yolk, ½ teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon vanilla into a soft, enriched dough, then fold in ½ cup raisins and ¼ cup candied orange peel. Let it rise until doubled, shape into a tall panettone mold, and rise again until it crowns the mold.
- Bake it clean: Bake at 350°F for 40–50 minutes, until deep golden and a skewer comes out clean. Cool completely — panettone is best sliced the next day, when the crumb has settled. Nothing dosed has gone near the oven — the bake is pure holiday bread, and that is the point.
- Portion the serving butter, off heat: Soften 2 tablespoons dosed butter (≈ 144mg total) at room temperature — never melt it over heat, because heat is how a careful dose becomes a guess. Divide it into 12 equal pats of ½ teaspoon each, using a measuring spoon so every pat is identical.
- Slice and serve to the count: Slice the loaf into 12 even slices. Serve each slice with exactly one pat of dosed butter, spread edge to edge. Count the slices as you plate — twelve slices, twelve pats, one number. Label any leftover butter dosed with the per-pat count, and keep it away from the undosed holiday butter.
🧬 Terpene Pairing
- Primary terpenes: Limonene (the candied orange peel note — panettone's signature, and the one that survives best when the dose stays out of the oven), linalool (the floral vanilla softness that makes the crumb smell like a holiday morning), and terpinolene (a fresh, herbal lift that keeps a rich, buttery bread from feeling heavy).
- How to use it: A limonene-forward strain in the serving butter means the slice smells like orange and vanilla before it tastes like anything else — and because the dose lives in the butter, the aroma stays honest instead of baking off.
- What to avoid: Dosing the dough and then baking for nearly an hour while hoping for the best. The crumb is not where the count belongs in a bread that will be sliced by eye.
🌱 Strain Suggestions
- Super Lemon Haze — Limonene, terpinolene. Bright and citrusy; made for the candied peel.
- Lavender — Linalool, myrcene. Floral and calm; the holiday-morning version of this bread.
- Tangie — Limonene, myrcene. Sweet orange and easy; keeps the citrus front and center.
📏 Dosage
- Per serving: ~12mg THC per slice with its pat of dosed butter — one slice, not one slice plus an extra pat "because it is small." The pat is the dose.
- Onset: 30–90 minutes. Panettone is a slow food; let the dose be slow too.
- Storage: Bread keeps 3 days at room temperature in an airtight container; dosed butter keeps refrigerated up to 3 weeks. Toast undosed slices only — never toast or microwave a slice after the dosed butter is on it.
Start with one serving. Wait 90 minutes before even thinking about a second. For adults 21+ only. Consume responsibly and in accordance with local laws.
🥘 Chef Smoke's Table Rule: "Bake it clean, dose the butter, slice it even — the holiday bread counts when every slice gets the same pat."
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