Porto Santo Jewish Unleavened Bread

‘Bolo Ázimo dos Judeus (Porto Santo)’ is the name recorded in an indicative national list of traditional products. A local tourism page calls it pão ázimo and describes barley flour kneaded with water and salt, then cooked on a griddle. This is the only open Porto Santo formula found in this review; it gives no quantities, thickness, timing, temperature or shaping method.

The photograph on that page shows pale, thin, round flatbreads with scattered griddle marks. This catalogue image is an original editorial interpretation of those visible elements and keeps every piece intact; it is neither a historical photograph nor authentication of a specific method.

The phrase ‘dos Judeus’ (‘of the Jews’) belongs to the inventory name, while the local page describes the bread as ‘typically’ Jewish in origin. None of the consulted sources, however, documents who introduced it to Porto Santo, when, in what context, or whether it was associated with a Jewish community, family or ritual practice on the island. The association must therefore be read as an unproven traditional attribution, not a demonstrated genealogy.