I don’t know about you…. but I’m curious.
I see ‘caco’ and my mind immediately goes to chocolate, even though I know it’s not (cacao, not caco).
Elizabeth, of blog from OUR kitchen, and our host kitchen for this month, explains the term: this flatbread was cooked on a basalt stone over hot coals, which was called caco, hence its name.
It’s also known as Madeiran Tile Bread.
This bread (or these flatbreads) are a specialty of the Portuguese island of Madeira. Originally, they were cooked on the stones because regular people couldn’t have ovens and had to pay to use the ovens in the monasteries or castles.
They are now a popular street food as well as a staple with every meal.
They have sweet potato in the dough, white if available, because there was not a lot of grain available on the island. Or, maybe, because it made a nice, moist bread.
To try your hand at this check out blog from OUR kitchen. You’ll find the recipe, history, photos, and all the details for baking along this month.
That’s it for April…
Happy Spring !
The Bread Baking Babes
A Messy Kitchen – Kelly
blog from OUR kitchen – Elizabeth
Bread Experience – Cathy
Feeding My Enthusiasms – Elle
Judy’s Gross Eats – Judy
Karen’s Kitchen Stories – Karen
My Diverse Kitchen — Aparna
My Kitchen In Half Cups – Tanna
And me…. Thyme for Cooking – Katie
My kiddo says I need to make more, that makes them a definite winner! She has enjoyed them both buttered and as breakfast sandwiches, both with scrambled and poached eggs. I really like the poached egg sammy! I will make them a little smaller next time for that purpose, English muffin sized.
Breakfast sandwiches !!! Love them and it’s been ages. Perfect!
Kate, you really should demote my ultra round bolos lower down on your post displaying this really amazing bread. The other BBBabes’ bolos look exactly like the ones that are sold by our favourite Portuguese butcher.
Ultra round bolos do taste really good though….
I have long ago started being happy with taste over form. I’m also pretty content with ‘good enough’.
Thank you so much Katie. We really enjoyed these and were lucky enough to find the white sweet potatoes!
First time I had white sweet potatoes I thought I had bought the wrong kind. All sweet potatoes are still not common here.
I was in the chocolate mind set too ! But despite the lack of cacao these look amazing !
My mind always goes to chocolate with the least vague hint.