Algarve Nut Sweet Bread
An upland sweet bread enriched with olive oil, spices and walnuts or almonds.
- Origin
- Algarve uplands
- Region
- Algarve uplands
- Season
- Year-round
Bolo de Faca is a large sweet bread from the Algarve uplands. Sugar, margarine, lard, olive oil, eggs, walnuts, lemon zest, cinnamon and anise are worked into already raised bread dough; after another kneading and an hour's proof, the loaf bakes in a wood-fired oven.
It keeps the classic shape and pale-yellow colour of bread, with visible bumps from walnut pieces. Substantial and rustic, it serves equally as a treat, breakfast or afternoon snack.
- bread dough
- sugar
- margarine
- lard
- olive oil
- eggs
- walnuts or almonds
- lemon
- cinnamon
- anise
Dense and moderately sweet, with crunchy nuts, citrus, spice and richness from several fats.
Almonds may entirely replace walnuts; it is also called Pão com Frutos Secos.
At traditional bakeries, markets and fairs in the Algarve uplands.
Coffee, anise tea or goat's cheese.
It represents upland Algarve baking, where large bread-dough cakes contrast with the refined egg-and-almond confectionery of the coast and with fig sweets. It is also known as Pão com Frutos Secos, or bread with nuts.
Sources: tradicional.dgadr.gov.pt
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