Pandôçe (Pandolce)

The Genoese do not like their pandolce compared with the panettone of Milan. They assert that their cake has medieval origins, while panettone is more recent. Pandolce arrived in London in the luggage of nineteenth-century British travelers who wintered in Liguria, and came to be known in England as Genoa Cake. Pandolce was originally prepared in Genoese homes at Christmastime and only more recently did it appear in bakeries. Every Genoese woman had her own secret ingredients that went into