Pao Doce / Portuguese Sweet Bread |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 45 Minutes |
Ready In: 45 Minutes Servings: 20 |
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You may have seen King's Hawaiian Bread at the grocers, round fluffy bread with a hint of sweetness. If you're lucky, you've savored 'Portuguese Sweet Bread', aka: Pao Doce or Hawaiian Sweet Bread from one of Hawaii's tasty bakeries. Read more . Best described as a brioche type bread, Pao Doce is a yeast bread made with sugar, milk and eggs. It can be dense yet fluffy and very tasty. A poster from Honolulu says: 'Pao Doce' was brought over by plantation laborers from the Azores and Madeira during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was originally popularized by the King's Bakery which was located on near the corner of King St. and McCully in Honolulu ... Pretty soon sweet bread became so entrenched in the local food scene (particularly as a fundraiser for sports teams and the like) that, at least to outsiders, it became seen as a typical Hawai`i food. In New England, where some Portuguese communities have flourished, one might find Pao Doce baked with hard cooked eggs decorating the dough during Easter. The loaves have a few colored boiled eggs peeking out through the crust. Ways some folks in Hawaii (and on the mainland) enjoy it are: sandwiches with crispy fried Spam (hmmm, kind of like a corn dog), with guava jam or lilikoi (passionfruit) curd/butter, cut extra thick for stuffed French Toast with cream cheese and banana, sauteed in butter till crisp on both sides topped with vanilla ice cream and honey or fresh fruit, bread pudding with coconut syrup or hard sauce. I myself enjoyed it with homemade lilikoi curd. IF ANYONE has recipes for versions of this bread with guava or mango, please submit/post to Raging Regional Recipes. Thanks. Ingredients:
pao doce (portuguese sweet bread) from: hawaiian electric company |
2 pkg active dry yeast |
1/2 cup warm potato water |
3 tablespoons sugar |
1 cup mashed potatoes |
1/8 teaspoon ginger |
1/2 cup milk |
2 teaspoons salt |
6 eggs |
1 3/4 cups sugar |
1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted |
8 to 10 cups flour |
bread machine portuguese sweet bread |
original recipe yield 1 1/2 pound loaf |
ingredients |
1 cup milk |
1 egg |
2 tablespoons margarine |
1/3 cup white sugar |
3/4 teaspoon salt |
3 cups bread flour |
2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast |
Directions:
1. Dissolve yeast in potato water. Stir in the 3 tablespoons sugar, potatoes and ginger. Cover; let rise until doubled. Scald milk; add salt and cool to lukewarm. In small bowl of electric mixer, beat eggs; gradually beat in the 1 3/4 cups sugar. Stir into yeast mixture. Add butter and mix well. Stir in 2 cups of the flour, then milk. Add 2 more cups of the flour; beat 5 minutes. Stir in enough remaining flour to make a stiff dough. Place on lightly floured board and knead int remaining flour until dough is smooth and elastic, about 8 to 10 minutes. Place in greased bowl, turning in grease top. Cover; let rise until doubled.
2. Grease four 9 X 5 X 3-inch loaf pans. On a lightly floured board, divide dough into fourths. Shape each fourth into a loaf; place in prepared pans. Cover; let rise until doubled. Preheat electric oven to 325 degrees F. Bake for 45 minutes or until done.
3. Makes 4 loaves.
4. BREAD MACHINE PORTUGUESE SWEET BREAD
5. Add the ingredients and set it to the dough cycle. Then put the dough in a loaf pan and bake at 350° for 20 minutes, turning half way through. It comes out absolutely gorgeous.
6. I have made this with skim milk, whole milk, and half and half, it comes out tasty every time. Try butter instead of margarine. Red Star bread machine yeast results were better than with regular yeast. The difference is a bigger fluffier loaf of bread.
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