Azorean Sweet Muffins
Raised sweet-bread discs slowly cooked on both sides on a griddle.
- Origin
- Azores · archipelago-wide tradition, famous in Furnas
- Region
- Azores · famous in Furnas
- Season
- Year-round
Bolos Lêvedos are round flattened sweet breads about one centimetre thick. A dough of flour, sugar, butter, milk, eggs and yeast proves at length, first in bulk and then as individual balls, before being flattened and cooked on both sides on a lightly floured griddle.
The rims remain pale while the faces become deeply toasted; the crumb is soft, elastic and mildly sweet. They are eaten plain, toasted or warm with butter, fresh cheese, preserves, tea or milk.
- wheat flour
- sugar
- butter
- baker's yeast
- milk
- eggs
- salt
Mildly sweet and buttery, with toasted faces, soft crumb and a milky bread flavour.
Older versions could omit sugar and eggs; Furnas popularised the modern sweet form, while other islands retain their own recipes.
In Furnas and across São Miguel, as well as bakeries and homes on other Azorean islands including Faial.
Butter, fresh cheese, preserves, Azorean tea or milk.
Versions exist throughout the archipelago. The official record lists Faial as a production area but also documents an older north São Miguel tradition and the sweeter Furnas innovation of the mid-twentieth century, now the most commercially famous form. This page preserves that plural geography.
Sources: tradicional.dgadr.gov.pt
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